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I'm Tryin' to Get Home Donald Byrd featuring performances by Byrd with a large brass section and vocalists recorded in 1964 and released on the Blue Note label in 1965 as BLP 4188.[ 2]
Reception
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2 stars and stated "despite some strong moments, the date (which resulted in no real hits) does not quite reach the heights of A New Perspective [ 3]
Track listing
All compositions by Donald Byrd "Brother Isaac" - 4:54
"Noah" - 6:59
"I'm Tryin' to Get Home" - 7:01
"I've Longed and Searched for My Mother" - 8:35
"March Children" - 7:17
"Pearly Gates" - 2:05 Recorded on December 17 (#1, 3, 5) & December 18 (#2, 4, 6), 1964.
Personnel
Donald Byrd - trumpet , flugelhorn Joe Ferrante, Jimmy Owens , Ernie Royal , Clark Terry , Snooky Young - trumpet
Jimmy Cleveland , Henry Coker , J.J. Johnson , Benny Powell - trombone Jim Buffington , Bob Northern - french horn Don Butterfield - tuba Stanley Turrentine - tenor saxophone Herbie Hancock - pianoFreddie Roach - organ Grant Green - guitarBob Cranshaw - bass Grady Tate - drums Duke Pearson - arranger Coleridge Perkinson - director , conductor
Unidentified musicians - percussion
Unidentified chorus - vocals
References
Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release .
As WithPepper WithThe Jazz WithGigi WithJackie WithHank With
Discoveries Presenting Cannonball Adderley Cannonball Adderley , 1955)Jammin' with Gene Gene Ammons , 1956)All Night Long Kenny Burrell , 1956)All Day Long 2 Guitars Jimmy Raney , 1957)Whims of Chambers Paul Chambers , 1956)Paul Chambers Quintet Sonny's Crib Sonny Clark , 1957)My Conception Bohemia After Dark Kenny Clarke , 1955)Lush Life John Coltrane , 1957–58)The Believer The Last Trane Black Pearls Davis Cup Walter Davis Jr. , 1959)Wailing With Lou Lou Donaldson , 1957)Lou Takes Off This Is New Kenny Drew , 1957)All Mornin' Long Red Garland , 1957)Soul Junction High Pressure One Flight Up Dexter Gordon , 1964)Ladybird Snap Your Fingers Al Grey , 1962)Johnny Griffin Sextet Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 Guru , 1993)Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality My Point of View Herbie Hancock , 1993)Tone Tantrum Swamp Seed Jimmy Heath , 1963)Informal Jazz Elmo Hope , 1956)African High Life Solomon Ilori , 1963)Big Byrd: The Essence Part 2 Ahmad Jamal , 1994 or 1995)Quartet-Quintet Hank Jones , 1955)Bluebird TV Action Jazz! Mundell Lowe , 1959)The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall Goin' Out of My Head Wes Montgomery , 1965)Hush! Duke Pearson , 1962)Wahoo! Another One Oscar Pettiford Volume 2 (1955)Winner's Circle Oscar Pettiford , et al, 1957)Blues in Trinity Dizzy Reece , 1958)The Cool Voice of Rita Reys Dimensions & Extensions Sam Rivers , 1967)Sonny Rollins, Volume 1 Don't Stop the Carnival Sonny Rollins , 1978)Silver's Blue Horace Silver , 1956)6 Pieces of Silver A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume One A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume Two Taylor's Wailers Art Taylor , 1957)Soul Sauce Cal Tjader , 1964)A Bluish Bag Stanley Turrentine , 1967)Top Brass Ernie Wilkins , 1955)Pairing Off Phil Woods , 1956)
Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release
As WithKai Winding Albums
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley Sayin' Somethin' Nat Adderley , 1966)The Soul of the City Manny Albam , 1966)Basie Jam Count Basie , 1973)The Bosses "Big Joe" Turner , 1973)Night Song Kenny Burrell , 1969)I'm Tryin' to Get Home Donald Byrd , 1964)New York Slick Ron Carter , 1979)Birth of the Cool Miles Davis , 1949–50)Young Man with a Horn Miles Davis Volume 1 Miles Davis Volume 2 Summertime Paul Desmond , 1968)Afro-Cuban Kenny Dorham , 1955)At the Opera House Ella Fitzgerald , 1957)The Complete RCA Victor Recordings Dizzy Gillespie , 1949)Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions Dizzy Gillespie , 1951)Afro Dizzy and Strings Perceptions The Modern Touch Benny Golson , 1957)The Hawk Flies High Coleman Hawkins , 1957)Lady in Satin Billie Holiday , 1958)And Then Again Elvin Jones , 1965)The Modern Jazz Society Presents a Concert of Contemporary Music John Lewis , 1955)The Big Band Jimmy McGriff , 1966)Happenings Hank Jones & Oliver Nelson , 1966)Encyclopedia of Jazz Oliver Nelson , 1965–66)Nine Flags Chico O'Farrill , 1966)Charlie Parker on Dial Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 Alfie Sonny Rollins , 1966)Carnival of the Spirits Moacir Santos , 1975)New Fantasy Lalo Schifrin , 1964)Once a Thief and Other Themes The Cape Verdean Blues Horace Silver , 1965)Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones The Matadors Meet the Bull Sonny Stitt , 1965)What's New!!! Joyride Stanley Turrentine , 1965) Film
Years given are for the recording(s), including the soundtrack albums, not first release.
As leader AndShirley Scott WithMax Roach With others
Freedom Kenny Burrell , 1963–64)Midnight Blue I'm Tryin' to Get Home Donald Byrd , 1964)Up with Donald Byrd With the Tenors of Our Time Roy Hargrove , 1994)Life Flight Flight to Jordan Duke Jordan , 1960)Only Trust Your Heart Diana Krall , 1994)Abbey Is Blue Abbey Lincoln , 1959)Les McCann Ltd. in New York Les McCann , 1961)Electric Funk Jimmy McGriff , 1969)Speakin' My Piece Horace Parlan , 1960)On the Spur of the Moment The Right Touch Duke Pearson , 1967)Easy Living Congo Lament (Ike Quebec , 1962)Comin' On! Dizzy Reece , 1960)Serenade to a Soul Sister Horace Silver , 1968)Back at the Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith , 1960)Midnight Special Prayer Meetin' A.T.'s Delight Art Taylor , 1960)
