A New Perspective
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| Studio album by Donald Byrd | ||||
| Released | Early February 1964 | |||
| Recorded | January 12, 1963 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs |
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| Genre | Jazz, hard bop | |||
| Length | 40:37 | |||
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Blue Note Records BST 84124 |
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| Producer | Alfred Lion | |||
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A New Perspective is a 1964 album by jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd released on the Blue Note label as BLP 4124 and BST 84124. The performances are mainly in a hard bop style, but the recording also features a gospel choir performing wordless vocals.
The album is widely regarded as one of Byrd's finest, and introduced the song "Cristo Redentor", by Duke Pearson, which became a jazz standard.
The album was remastered in 1998 by Rudy Van Gelder.
About the project, Byrd said: "I mean this album seriously. Because of my own background, I've always wanted to write an entire album of spiritual-like pieces. The most accurate way I can describe what we were all trying to do is that this is a modern hymnal. In an earlier period, the New Orleans jazzmen would often play religious music for exactly what it was - but with their own jazz textures and techniques added. Now, as modern jazzmen, we're also approaching this tradition with respect and great pleasure."
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