Solo Flight - Charlie Byrd

 

Am I Blue

Solo Flight

Charlie Byrd

Cover Photo: Bart Devito

Album Design: Sam Alexander

Liner Photograph: S. C. Thug

Riverside STEREO 9498

1964

From the back cover: This album by Charlie Byrd, a guitarist who has long since proven his mettle in a variety of settings, and on both acoustic and electric guitar, is something quite out of the ordinary. (In the jazz field, only Bill Harris, of whom little has been heard lately, has attempted a whole album of solo guitar.)

Since the guitar, with the advent of rock-and-roll, has become the most widely used musical instrument in the westerner world, it will be most instructive for the youngsters (with their amplifiers and built-in tremolos) to listen to what Charlie Byrd can do with just a little old acoustic guitar, and no gimmicks. It might, perhaps, make them a little less sure of themselves, and a little more ambitious.

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