Blythe Byte

Blythe Byte is an album by saxophonist Arthur Blythe that was recorded in 2001 and released on the Savant label.[1]

Blythe Byte
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 24, 2001
RecordedMarch 17, 2001
StudioTedesco Studio, Paramus, NJ
GenreJazz
Length54:28
LabelSavant
SCD 2036
ProducerCecil Brooks III
Arthur Blythe chronology
Spirits in the Field
(2000)
Blythe Byte
(2001)
Focus
(2002)

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

In his review on Allmusic, arwulf arwulf called it "a well-balanced assortment".[2] In JazzTimes, Bill Bennett wrote: "Working here in (and out of) a quartet setting, Blythe dances deftly between what we know and what he wants to show us".[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Arthur Blythe except where noted

  1. "Hardly" – 7:29
  2. "Besame Mucho" (Consuelo Velázquez, Sunny Skylar) – 5:47
  3. "Blue Monk" (Thelonious Monk) – 6:09
  4. "Light Blue" (Monk) – 5:02
  5. "And One" (Dwayne Dolphin) – 6:23
  6. "My Little Brown Book" (Billy Strayhorn) – 6:15
  7. "Naima" (John Coltrane) – 6:11
  8. "Ruby, My Dear" (Monk) – 6:00
  9. "Blythe Byte" – 0:43
  10. "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" (Joseph Scriven, Charles Crozat Converse) – 4:29

Personnel

References

  1. Jazz Depot: album entry accessed March 9, 2018
  2. arwulf, arwulf. Arthur Blythe – Blythe Byte: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. Bennett, B. JazzTimes Review, accessed March 9, 2018
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