Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A track from the 2003 CD "Smooth Jazz 1" , which features trumpeter Donald Byrd.
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The song is a renowned pop and jazz standard composed by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.
Byrd's instrumental interpretation—featuring his iconic trumpet alongside jazz greats like McCoy Tyner—is featured on his 1967 album Mustang!
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Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter, composer and vocalist.
A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was one of the few hard bop musicians who successfully explored funk and soul while remaining a jazz artist. As a bandleader, Byrd was an influence on the early career of Herbie Hancock and many others.
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This track was recorded directly to computer from the CD and processed using Audacity software.
The video was created in Movie Maker, where the images and the music track were assembled into the final product.
Creating just one video such as this from a single track on a CD takes around fifteen minutes from start to finish, therefore an eighteen-track CD takes more than three hours to process.
A track from the 2003 CD "Smooth Jazz 1" , which features trumpeter Donald Byrd.
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The song is a renowned pop and jazz standard composed by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.
Byrd's instrumental interpretation—featuring his iconic trumpet alongside jazz greats like McCoy Tyner—is featured on his 1967 album Mustang!
__________________________________________
Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter, composer and vocalist.
A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was one of the few hard bop musicians who successfully explored funk and soul while remaining a jazz artist. As a bandleader, Byrd was an influence on the early career of Herbie Hancock and many others.
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This track was recorded directly to computer from the CD and processed using Audacity software.
The video was created in Movie Maker, where the images and the music track were assembled into the final product.
Creating just one video such as this from a single track on a CD takes around fifteen minutes from start to finish, therefore an eighteen-track CD takes more than three hours to process.
