Charlie Byrd
USA
Born: 16 September 1925
Died: 02 December 1999
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90
Genres: Jazz, International, Vocal
Styles: World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Bop, Bossa Nova, Latin America, Brazilian Jazz, Latin Jazz, Swing, Big Band/Swing, Standards, Hard Bop, Traditional Pop, Vocal/Standards
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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 w...
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