Donald Byrd. Photo: guardian.co.uk
Donald Byrd, a leading
hard-bop trumpeter of the 1950s who collaborated on dozens of albums
with top artists of his time and later enjoyed commercial success with
hit jazz-funk fusion records such as ‘Black Byrd,’ died at the age of 80 on Monday February 4, 2013.
Byrd, who was also a pioneer in jazz education performed on late rapper, Guru‘s 1993 jazz-rap album, ‘Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1,’ and his recordings were sampled on more than 100 hip-hop songs by such performers as Black Moon, Nas, Ludacris and A Tribe Called Quest.
In 2000, the US National Endowment for the Arts recognized Byrd as a Jazz Master, the nation’s highest jazz honor
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