
This record was pressed by Vinyl Me, Please and you can't get this specific variation anywhere else.
color | Black |
extras | Exclusive listening notes by Natalie Weiner |
foil stamped | Yes |
jacket style | Tip-On |
jacket type | Single |
numbered | Yes |
pressing location | GZ |
remastering details | Remastered |
speed | 33 1/3 RPM |
vinyl size | 12 INCH |
weight | 180 Gram |
exclusive | VMP Exclusive |
label | Universal |
mastering engineering | Kevin Gray |
release type | Reissue |
Fancy Free finds him catching the front edge of jazz’s shift toward fusion, with a much gentler and more approachable result than some of his peers produced. Its innovations lie in its source material: Fancy Free adapts the vernacular of funk and R&B more than it does that of rock, the inspiration for most jazz fusion records that are considered canon. Hindsight so often being 20/20, Byrd’s take on fusion — work that was then greeted skeptically — is looking more and more prescient.
“I’m not trying to be avant-garde or a hippie,” the then 37-year-old Byrd explained. “I’m me, and a lot of different things interest me at different times. And since I’m not pressing to be something other than myself, the sessions come out as relaxed as I can make them. As this one did.”
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