#RIP
Donald Byrd,
one of the leading jazz trumpeters
of the 1950s and early 1960s, who became
both successful and controversial in the
1970s by blending jazz, funk and rhythm and
blues into a pop hybrid that defied categorization,
died on Feb. 4 in Dover, Del. He was 80.
[via The New York Times]
(via virtualnotebook)
![#RIPDonald Byrd, one of the leading jazz trumpeters of the 1950s and early 1960s, who became both successful and controversial in the 1970s by blending jazz, funk and rhythm and blues into a pop hybrid that defied categorization, died on Feb. 4 in Dover, Del. He was 80. [via The New York Times]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/f37a77cdcc1b8b66fffcc889c3c3b35d/tumblr_mhz0sozUJm1qed1f3o1_400.jpg)
#RIP
Donald Byrd,
one of the leading jazz trumpeters
of the 1950s and early 1960s, who became
both successful and controversial in the
1970s by blending jazz, funk and rhythm and
blues into a pop hybrid that defied categorization,
died on Feb. 4 in Dover, Del. He was 80.
[via The New York Times]
(via virtualnotebook)
