Opa released only two albums before disbanding in the early 1980s. While neither of their albums found commercial success during their initial releases (despite the high-profile personalities involved ...

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Blackbyrds’ City Life and Johnny Lytle’s first-ever reissue of People & Love, both now available on 180-gram vinyl. Two recent releases from Craft Recordings‘ ...

Basketball and Blaxploitation collide courtside in the film Cornbread, Earl and Me a mid-70s urban blockbuster with a soundtrack scored by Donald Byrd, which comprises the first part of this recent ...

He was more than an NEA Jazz Master, although that in itself was quite an honor. The legendary jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd was also an educator and a visionary, with a desire to teach others what he ...

Kevin Toney in Los Angeles, CA. “We sued him to get out of our agreement,” Toney reveals. “We do an audit, and the audit had some questions to be answered. Essentially, Donald would never face us in ...

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