Donald Byrd - Free Form (1966) [Reissue 1989]

Posted By: gribovar

Donald Byrd - Free Form (1966) [Reissue 1989]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 308 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 105 MB | Covers - 21 MB
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (CDP 7 84118 2)

Donald Byrd's 1961 recording Free Form is both a smorgasbord of modern jazz styles and a breakthrough album showing the Detroit born trumpeter's versatility and interest in diversity. At age 30, turning down offers to teach and a full decade before turning to commercial funk fusion with his Blackbyrds, Byrd, alongside a wonderful collection of jazz professionals, proves his mettle as an individualist while also stylistically straddling the blurred lines of jazz. Where his brass tone is very lean and toned, he does not resort to outlandish outbursts into the ionosphere, but shows a refined yet daring approach removed from his predecessors or peers - Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan in particular. With tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, a very young pianist Herbie Hancock, drummer Billy Higgins, and bassist Butch Warren, Byrd tackles different flavors of jazz with a voracious appetite, and delivers a very fresh perspective from them all. From Column A - soul junction - "Pentecostal Feelin'" comes straight from the Horace Silver bag, an original funk with Shorter, Hancock, and Higgins head noddin' to the band. Column B's "Nai Nai" is all straight-ahead hard bop, lighter but not wimpy as Byrd and Shorter play well together. The more modal "French Spice" is still in the hard-to-post-bop mold, but has a two-note base until the horns burst out with a rich melody. The title track spectacularly represents the so-called "new thing," a tone row-based, searching, or clarion-type spontaneous improvisation where the band is purposefully set apart from the inventive drumming of Higgins in a firmly non-established meter. Romance is also on the menu via the no frills ballad "Night Flower" as Byrd serenely leads the band into a curtain-closing venture into tenderness, with Hancock's underlying chords something to truly behold upon close listening. This may be close to Donald Byrd's best early work, a strong statement that is by no means homogeneous, but expresses many of the avenues in jazz he was exploring while finding his own unique voice on the trumpet.
Tracklist:
01. Pentacostal Feelin'
02. Night Flower
03. Nai Nai
04. French Spice
05. Free Form
06. Three Wishes (Bonus track)

Total time: 44:36

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 4 from 7. December 2014

EAC extraction logfile from 16. February 2015, 16:26

Donald Byrd / Free Form

Used drive : TSSTcorpCDDVDW SH-224DB Adapter: 1 ID: 0

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
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%–tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%


TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 6:43.57 | 0 | 30281
2 | 6:43.57 | 6:48.08 | 30282 | 60889
3 | 13:31.65 | 6:38.12 | 60890 | 90751
4 | 20:10.02 | 8:03.15 | 90752 | 126991
5 | 28:13.17 | 11:12.20 | 126992 | 177411
6 | 39:25.37 | 5:11.18 | 177412 | 200754


Track 1

Filename E:\Documents\Music\01 - Pentacostal Feelin'.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.00

Peak level 99.4 %
Extraction speed 2.2 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 58F13067
Copy CRC 58F13067
Accurately ripped (confidence 4) [2318D580] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 2

Filename E:\Documents\Music\02 - Night Flower.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.89

Peak level 80.8 %
Extraction speed 2.2 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 430CD9F9
Copy CRC 430CD9F9
Accurately ripped (confidence 4) [828F4EE8] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 3

Filename E:\Documents\Music\03 - Nai Nai.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.70

Peak level 94.7 %
Extraction speed 2.2 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 8D80DBBD
Copy CRC 8D80DBBD
Accurately ripped (confidence 4) [9B65644F] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 4

Filename E:\Documents\Music\04 - French Spice.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.66

Peak level 99.4 %
Extraction speed 2.2 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 1FE51A92
Copy CRC 1FE51A92
Accurately ripped (confidence 4) [C1465178] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 5

Filename E:\Documents\Music\05 - Free Form.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.02

Peak level 93.0 %
Extraction speed 2.2 X
Track quality 99.9 %
Test CRC B7FB8857
Copy CRC B7FB8857
Accurately ripped (confidence 4) [BCFD0C06] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 6

Filename E:\Documents\Music\06 - Three Wishes.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.13

Peak level 99.4 %
Extraction speed 2.1 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 413F8309
Copy CRC 413F8309
Accurately ripped (confidence 4) [75982678] (AR v2)
Copy OK


All tracks accurately ripped

No errors occurred

End of status report

–– CUETools DB Plugin V2.1.4

[CTDB TOCID: tpOZdvPC0jdPulELfUPYaF3x5_Y-] found
Submit result: already submitted
Track | CTDB Status
1 | (7/7) Accurately ripped
2 | (7/7) Accurately ripped
3 | (7/7) Accurately ripped
4 | (7/7) Accurately ripped
5 | (7/7) Accurately ripped
6 | (7/7) Accurately ripped


==== Log checksum BDEC4C16432ECDA2D6449CD1CD60FCEF61D111358A4116A4AE9061119227BA77 ====

[CUETools log; Date: 26.07.2022 22:40:56; Version: 2.1.4]
[CTDB TOCID: tpOZdvPC0jdPulELfUPYaF3x5_Y-] found.
Track | CTDB Status
1 | (17/18) Accurately ripped
2 | (17/18) Accurately ripped
3 | (17/18) Accurately ripped
4 | (17/18) Accurately ripped
5 | (17/18) Accurately ripped
6 | (17/18) Accurately ripped
[AccurateRip ID: 000a7beb-00389ff0-440a7406] found.
Track [ CRC | V2 ] Status
01 [6b9f8d5e|2318d580] (02+08/10) Accurately ripped
02 [faa97188|828f4ee8] (02+08/10) Accurately ripped
03 [59f15f9f|9b65644f] (02+08/10) Accurately ripped
04 [1e96a952|c1465178] (02+08/10) Accurately ripped
05 [9ce82b9a|bcfd0c06] (00+08/08) Accurately ripped
06 [0c0613fa|75982678] (00+07/07) Accurately ripped

Track Peak [ CRC32 ] [W/O NULL] [ LOG ]
– 99,4 [CB46D54E] [DDB40C38]
01 99,4 [58F13067] [9AE2BC13] CRC32
02 80,8 [430CD9F9] [1C2E2A00] CRC32
03 94,7 [8D80DBBD] [F586D449] CRC32
04 99,4 [1FE51A92] [92E00E61] CRC32
05 93,0 [B7FB8857] [68A0EFF8] CRC32
06 99,4 [413F8309] [221D981E] CRC32

Thanks to neraissa13