Encyclopedia > Donald Byrd

  Article Content

Donald Byrd

Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II is an American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter, bron in Detroit, Michigan in 1932. he performed with Lionel Hampton before finishing high school. After playing in a military band during a term in the United States Air Force, he obtained a bachelor's degree in music from Wayne State University[?] and a master's degree from Manhattan School of Music[?]. While still at the Manhattan School he joined the Jazz Messengers, replacing Clifford Brown. After leaving the Jazz Messengers in 1956 he performed with a wide variety of highly regarded jazz musicians, and in the 1970s started recording in the jazz fusion and rhythm and blues genres.

He has taught music at Rutgers University, the Hampton Institute[?], New York University, and Howard University[?].



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Shoreham, New York

... up of individuals and 6.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.88 and the average family size is 3.11. In th ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 408 ms