Places and Spaces - Classic Vinyl Series Blue Hawaii covered by dozens of artists

covered by dozens of artists including the Blues Brothers

'I feel that it’s important to me to only write/record when you’re channeling some kind of emotion

from the opening training montage to the demise in the elegiac closing title track

which depicts a prism spectrum

taken from the original tapes

Places and Spaces - Classic Vinyl Series Blue Hawaii covered by dozens of artistsDonald Byrds 1975 fusion classic Places and Spaces was the culmination of the legendary trumpeters vibrant latter Blue Note years. Byrd had begun recording for Blue Note in 1958, and over two decades evolved from a top notch hard bop trumpeter into a pioneer of R&B Funk fusion, leading the labels own creative direction along a similar path. Byrd had begun to introduce elements of fusion to his music with his 1969 album Fancy Free and shadowed Miles