"For this excellent 1959 album, trumpeter Donald Byrd teams up with tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, baritonist Pepper Adams, pianist Walter Davis, Jr., bassist Sam Jones and drummer Art Taylor. Together the sextet performs three Byrd originals, two Davis songs and the standard "Witchcraft." Although none of the new tunes caught on, the group (which includes two distinctive saxophonists and the rapidly maturing trumpet of Donald Byrd) plays consistently creative and spirited solos in the hard bop idiom". (RVG remaster). Recorded on May 31, 1959 at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
All transfers from the analog tapes to digital were made at 24-bit resolution. Originally issued as Blue Note BLP 4019 and BST 84019.
- 1 Witchcraft
- 2 Here Am I
- 3 Devil Whip
- 4 Bronze Dance
- 5 Clarion Calls
- 6 The Injuns
