Big Byrd: The Essence Part 2

Big Byrd: The Essence Part 2
Big Byrd: The Essence Part 2
Studio album by Ahmad Jamal
Released	1996
Recorded	October 30–31, 1994 and February 6–7, 1995
Studio	Studio Marcadet, La Plaine Saint Denis, France and Clinton Recording Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	57:31
Label	Birdology 529447-2
Ahmad Jamal chronology

Released1996

RecordedOctober 30–31, 1994 and February 6–7, 1995

StudioStudio Marcadet, La Plaine Saint Denis, France and Clinton Recording Studios, New York City

GenreJazz

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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[2]

Big Byrd: The Essence Part 2 is an album by the American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal, containing performances recorded in Paris in 1994 and New York in 1995 and released on the Birdology label.^[3]

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v t e Ahmad Jamal
Studio albums	Ahmad Jamal Plays (1955) The Ahmad Jamal Trio (1955) Count 'Em 88 (1956) Ahmad's Blues (1958) The Piano Scene of Ahmad Jamal (1959) Jamal at the Penthouse (1959) Happy Moods (1960) Listen to the Ahmad Jamal Quintet (1960) Macanudo (1962) The Roar of the Greasepaint (1965) Extensions (1965) Rhapsody (1966) Heat Wave (1966) Cry Young (1967) The Bright, the Blue and the Beautiful (1968) Tranquility (1968) The Awakening (1970) Ahmad Jamal '73 (1973) Jamalca (1974) Jamal Plays Jamal (1974) Genetic Walk (1975) Steppin' Out with a Dream (1976) One (1978) Intervals (1980) Night Song (1980) Digital Works (1985) Rossiter Road (1986) Crystal (1987) Pittsburgh (1989) I Remember Duke, Hoagy & Strayhorn (1994) The Essence Part One (1995) Big Byrd: The Essence Part 2 (1995) Nature: The Essence Part Three (1997) Picture Perfect (2001) Ballades (2019)
Live albums	Ahmad Jamal Trio Volume IV (1958) At the Pershing: But Not for Me (1958) At the Pershing, Vol. 2 (1958) Portfolio of Ahmad Jamal (1958) Ahmad Jamal's Alhambra (1961) All of You (1961) Ahmad Jamal at the Blackhawk (1962) Poinciana (1963) Naked City Theme (1964) Ahmad Jamal at the Top: Poinciana Revisited (1968) Freeflight (1971) Outertimeinnerspace (1972) Recorded Live at Oil Can Harry's (1976) Live at Bubba's (1980) In Concert (1981) American Classical Music (1982) Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival 1985 (1985) Live! At Blues Alley (1991) Live in Paris 1992 (1992) Chicago Revisited: Live at Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase (1992) Live in Paris 1996 (1996) Ahmad Jamal with the Assai Quartet (1998) Complete Live at the Pershing Lounge 1958 (2007) Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958 (2007)
Compilations	Standard Eyes (1967)

v t e Donald Byrd
Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader	Byrd's Eye View (1955) Byrd Jazz (1955) Byrd's Word (1955) Byrd Blows on Beacon Hill (1956) 2 Trumpets (with Art Farmer, 1956) The Young Bloods (with Phil Woods, 1956) Jazz Eyes (and John Jenkins ao, 1957) Fuego (1959) Byrd in Flight (1960) Free Form (1961) A New Perspective (1963) I'm Tryin' to Get Home (1964) Up with Donald Byrd (1964) Mustang! (1966) Blackjack (1967) Slow Drag (1967) Fancy Free (1969) Kofi (1969–70) Ethiopian Knights (1971) Black Byrd (1972) Street Lady (1973) Stepping into Tomorrow (1974) Places and Spaces (1975) Caricatures (1976) Thank You...For F.U.M.L. (Funking Up My Life) (1978) Donald Byrd and 125th Street, N.Y.C. (1979) Love Byrd (1981) Words, Sounds, Colors and Shapes (1982) Harlem Blues (1987) Getting Down to Business (1989) A City Called Heaven (1991)
With Pepper Adams	10 to 4 at the 5 Spot (1958) Off to the Races (1959) Byrd in Hand (1959) At the Half Note Cafe (1960) Motor City Scene (1960) Out of This World (1961) Chant (1961) The Cat Walk (1961) Royal Flush (1961) The Creeper (1967) Electric Byrd (1970)
With The Jazz Messengers	The Jazz Messengers (1956) Originally (1956) Art Blakey Big Band (1957) Holiday for Skins (2 volumes, 1958)
With Gigi Gryce	At Newport (and Cecil Taylor, 1957) Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet (Riverside, 1957) Jazz Lab (Columbia album) (1957) Jazz Lab (Jubilee album) (1957 [1958]) Modern Jazz Perspective (with Jackie Paris, 1957) New Formulas from the Jazz Lab (1957)
With Jackie McLean	Lights Out! (1956) 4, 5 and 6 (1956) New Soil (1959) Jackie's Bag (1959) Vertigo (1963)
With Hank Mobley	The Jazz Message of Hank Mobley (Savoy, 1956) Mobley's Message (Prestige, 1956) Jazz Message No. 2 (Savoy, 1957) Hank Mobley Sextet (1956) Hank (1957) No Room for Squares (1963) Straight No Filter (1963) The Turnaround! (1963) Far Away Lands (1967)
With others	Discoveries/Presenting Cannonball Adderley (Cannonball Adderley, 1955) Jammin' with Gene (Gene Ammons, 1956) All Night Long (Kenny Burrell, 1956) All Day Long (Kenny Burrell, 1957) 2 Guitars (Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Raney, 1957) Whims of Chambers (Paul Chambers, 1956) Paul Chambers Quintet (1957) Sonny's Crib (Sonny Clark, 1957) My Conception (Sonny Clark, 1959) Bohemia After Dark (Kenny Clarke, 1955) Lush Life (John Coltrane, 1957–58) The Believer (John Coltrane, 1957–58) The Last Trane (John Coltrane, 1957–58) Black Pearls (John Coltrane, 1957–58) Davis Cup (Walter Davis Jr., 1959) Wailing With Lou (Lou Donaldson, 1957) Lou Takes Off (Lou Donaldson, 1957) This Is New (Kenny Drew, 1957) All Mornin' Long (Red Garland, 1957) Soul Junction (Red Garland, 1957) High Pressure (Red Garland, 1957) One Flight Up (Dexter Gordon, 1964) Ladybird (Dexter Gordon, 1965) Snap Your Fingers (Al Grey, 1962) Johnny Griffin Sextet (1958) Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 (Guru, 1993) Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality (Guru, 1994–95) My Point of View (Herbie Hancock, 1993) Tone Tantrum (Gene Harris, 1977) 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 (Hank Jones, 1955) TV Action Jazz! (Mundell Lowe, 1959) The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall (1959) Goin' Out of My Head (Wes Montgomery, 1965) Hush! (Duke Pearson, 1962) Wahoo! (Duke Pearson, 1964) 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 (1956) Dimensions & Extensions (Sam Rivers, 1967) Sonny Rollins, Volume 1 (1956) Don't Stop the Carnival (Sonny Rollins, 1978) Silver's Blue (Horace Silver, 1956) 6 Pieces of Silver (Horace Silver, 1956–58) A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume One (1957) A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume Two (1957) 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)

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