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Donald Byrd - Stepping Into Tomorrow (1975) [Reissue 2000]
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Donald Byrd - Stepping Into Tomorrow (1975) [Reissue 2000]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 278 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 91 MB | Covers - 20 MB
Genre: Jazz-Funk, Soul Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (7243 5 23545 2 8)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 278 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 91 MB | Covers - 20 MB
Genre: Jazz-Funk, Soul Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (7243 5 23545 2 8)
Beginning with a crack of thunder, like it was made to trail Gary Bartz's "Mother Nature" (actually recorded at a slightly later date), Stepping into Tomorrow contains almost all of the Mizell trademarks within its title track's first 30 seconds: a soft and easy (yet still funky) electric-bass-and-drums foundation, silken rhythm guitar, organ and piano gently bouncing off one another, light synthesizer shading, and coed group vocals to ensure true liftoff. It's only one in a line of many magnetic '70s sessions led by Fonce and Larry Mizell, and it differs from their two previous Donald Byrd dates - the polarizing and groundbreaking Black Byrd and the deceptively excellent Street Lady - by not featuring any of Roger Glenn's flute, and by focusing on heavily melodic and laid-back arrangements. Even the speedy "You Are the World," by some distance the most energetic song, seems more suited for relaxing in a hammock than shooting down a freeway. Many of the musicians present on the previous Byrd-Mizell meetings are here, including drummer Harvey Mason, bassist Chuck Rainey, keyboardist Jerry Peters, and guitarist David T. Walker. As ever, those who pined for the approach of Byrd's '60s dates would tune out a sublime set of material, but maybe some of those who sniffed at the straightforward nature of some of the rhythms and riffing were won over by the supreme layering of the many components (the way in which "Think Twice" lurches forward, peels back, and gathers steam is nothing short of heavenly), not to mention some deeply evocative playing from Byrd himself.Tracklist:
01. Stepping Into Tomorrow
02. Design A Nation
03. We're Together
04. Think Twice
05. Makin' It
06. Rock And Roll Again
07. You Are The World
08. I Love The Girl
Total time: 38:36
Exact Audio Copy V1.6 from 23. October 2020
EAC extraction logfile from 16. July 2025, 15:37
Donald Byrd / Stepping Into Tomorrow
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EAC extraction logfile from 16. July 2025, 15:37
Donald Byrd / Stepping Into Tomorrow
Used drive : ASUS SDRW-08D2S-U Adapter: 1 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
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Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
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TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 5:13.12 | 0 | 23486
2 | 5:13.12 | 4:20.53 | 23487 | 43039
3 | 9:33.65 | 4:25.52 | 43040 | 62966
4 | 13:59.42 | 6:12.10 | 62967 | 90876
5 | 20:11.52 | 3:48.73 | 90877 | 108049
6 | 24:00.50 | 6:09.65 | 108050 | 135789
7 | 30:10.40 | 4:31.02 | 135790 | 156116
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