Charlie Byrd - Forgive and Forget (2018)

Tasteful, low-key, and ingratiatingly melodic, Charlie Byrd had two notable accomplishments to his credit – applying acoustic classical guitar techniques to jazz and popular music and helping to introduce Brazilian music to mass North American audiences. Born into a musical family, Byrd experienced his first brush with greatness while a teenager in France during World War II, playing with his idol Django Reinhardt. After some postwar gigs with Sol Yaged, Joe Marsala and Freddie Slack, Byrd temporarily abandoned jazz to study classical guitar with Sophocles Papas in 1950 and Andrés Segovia in 1954. However he re-emerged later in the decade gigging around the Washington D.C. area in jazz settings, often splitting his sets into distinct jazz and classical segments. He started recording for Savoy as a leader in 1957, and also recorded with the Woody Herman Band in 1958-59.

Track List:

1 My Heart Stood Still 03:18
2 Azul Tiple 03:36
3 The House of the Rising Sun 05:29
4 Hó Bá Lá Lá 02:14
5 My Funny Valentine 03:39
6 A Most Beautiful Thing 02:40
7 Speak Low 03:44
8 Makin' Whoopee 02:43
9 My Little Boat 01:56
10 Nuages 03:01
11 She Has Gone 02:35
12 Nice Work If You Can Get It 01:47
13 Don't Explain 03:27
14 You and I 02:56
15 Meditation 03:12
16 Taking a Chance on Love 01:57
17 The Duck 02:32
18 Moonlight in Vermont 02:52
19 Four O'clock Funk 05:45
20 La Galopera 02:12
21 Little Girl Blue 03:47
22 Taboo 09:41
23 Interlude 01:30
24 A Salute to Bonfá 02:22
25 Django 03:24
26 Amor Flamengo 02:02
27 To Ginny 05:25
28 Argentine Folksong 02:05
29 Morning of the Carnival 02:35
30 Bogota 03:52
31 Yvone 01:58
32 Hommage à Villa-Lobos 03:15