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    Donald Byrd Black Byrd (1973)

    Blue Note
    • Donald Byrd – Flight Time
    • 1. Flight Time
    • 2. black byrd
    • 3. love's so far away
    • 4. mr. thomas
    • 5. sky high
    • 6. slop jar blues
    • 7. where are we going?

    Written and produced by Larry Mizell, their first collaboration! It's a classic! Nuff tunes, seriously deep funky heavy 70s jazz monster



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