CHARLIE BYRD - Four Classic Albums (2 CDs)

AVID Jazz presents four classic Charlie Byrd albums including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.“Jazz Recital”; “Blues For Night People”; “Byrd’s Word” and “The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd”.You might say Charlie Byrd was on a mission on his first album as a solo artist “Jazz Recital”, recorded in Hackensack, New Jersey in February 1957. A passionate believer in the guitar as an affective lead instrument in jazz, five of the ten cuts here are solo guitar pieces. With a background in classical guitar technique and having studied in Italy with the guitar maestro Segovia, Byrd lays out his ambition in the original liner notes “I’d like to see the guitarists of today using more of the vast store of knowledge….piled up by great lute players and guitarists of the last 400 years..….why must the guitar be confined to single line playing and rhythm accompaniment…..if the guitar is going to take an important place as a solo instrument it must be broadene