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	Charlie Byrd : Legends of Music - The City of Norfolk, VA
		Charlie Byrd was born in Suffolk and grew up in the neighboring community of Chuckatuck in the company of local musicians who gathered at his father's general store during the Great Depression.
		Byrd took his first guitar lesson at age 10 and played at local high school dances as a teenager.
		Byrd rounded out his studies in South America, where he learned music with a Latin beat.
	www.norfolk.gov /WalkOfFame/Charlie_Byrd.asp (316 words)

	Charlie Byrd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles L. Byrd (September 16, 1925 - November 30, 1999), better known as Charlie Byrd, was a famous jazz guitarist, born in Suffolk, Virginia.
		In the early 1960's he was on a State Department tour in South America where he was introduced to a new music, the bossa nova, which was the musical passion of Brazil beginning in the late 50's.
		Byrd at the Gate: Charlie Byrd Trio at the Villiage Gate
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charlie_Byrd (245 words)

	Classic Jazz Guitar - Guitarists
		Charlie Byrd (1925 –; 1999) began playing the guitar at an early age under the guidance of his father.
		In 1950 Charlie Byrd returned to the Washington DC area where he began studying the classical guitar.
		Charlie Byrd is best remembered for the work he did with Stan Getz, and for his work with Herb Ellis and Barney Kessel, as The Great Guitars.
	www.classicjazzguitar.com /artists/artists_page.jsp?artist=54 (556 words)

	Jazz Musician Charlie Byrd Dies (washingtonpost.com)
		Thursday, December 2, 1999; 5:00 PM Charlie Byrd, the classically trained jazz guitar virtuoso who was a fixture on the Washington music scene for nearly 50 years and who helped introduce bossa nova to the U.S., died of cancer today at his home in Annapolis.
		Byrd's broad musical tastes — friends and family said he was revisiting jazz standards in recent years — he disliked fusing music styles, such as jazz with classical.
		Byrd also was a principal composer of music for the "Great Chefs" syndicated cooking program, writing music suitable to culinary themes that ranged from New Orleans jazz to Caribbean rhythms.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/pmextra/dec99/2/byrd.htm (974 words)

	Charlie Byrd, OBIT
		Byrd recorded more than 100 jazz and classical albums during a career that spanned more than half a century.
		Born in Suffolk, Virginia, Byrd learned guitar from his father, who was a mandolin player, young Charlie grew up listening to the Southern musicians who frequented his father's general store during The Depression.
		He is survived by his wife, Rebecca Byrd; two daughters, a granddaughter and two brothers.
	www.angelfire.com /biz/musiclassical/byrd.html (217 words)

	Commentary
		Charlie Byrd spoke of Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, the alto saxophone player who revolutionized music with his incredible facility and wealth of ideas, pioneering the jazz style called be-bop.
		Byrd became friendly with Nick Travis, the lead trumpet player in the Glen Miller Big Band, who was incorporating the complex rhythms of be-bop into his own playing.
		Charlie Byrd moved on until the brink of the new millennium, when, at 74, he died at home.
	www.bayweekly.com /year99/issue7_49/reflect7_49.html (831 words)

	Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Byrd By The Sea is a tour-de- force demonstration of the master's many talents at the height of his powers.
		To the end, though, whatever he played, Charlie Byrd was a premier jazzman; and if the heart of rock'n'roll is the beat, the heart of jazz is swing.
		Charlie Byrd went down too early (74 is only old in the jazz world), but he went down swinging.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-august00/reviews/review_charlie_byrd.html (333 words)

	Byrd / Not A Byrd
		Byrds buffs may remember that when the band first visited England, they were served with an injunction by a British RandB combo called "The Birds." The Birds released four singles on Decca between 1964 and 1966 before breaking up.
		Joe "Gene" Byrd is a bassist who played in the bands of his brother Charlie Byrd since the early '60s.
		Byrd, born in 1917, had played in various square dance bands from his teens, and once he entered politics, he used his fiddling skills to attract attention and win votes.
	ebni.com /byrds/relnot.html (1566 words)

	CD Review of Charlie Byrd - Byrd & Brazil on Concord Records @ jazzreview.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Charlie Byrd’s “Byrd & Brazil” is a two-CD reissue of two previously released albums — “Sugarloaf Suite” originally issued in 1980 and “Brazilville” originally released in 1982.
		Both of these were live recordings; the first as a trio with bassist (and brother) Joe Byrd and drummer Wayne Phillips and the second as a quartet, again with Joe Byrd on bass but with Charles Redd taking over the drum chair and with alto saxophonist Bud Shank joining the frontline.
		Charlie and Joe’s performances on this recording are stellar, but drummer Phillips falls a little short.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=7875 (662 words)

	Charlie Byrd \| Solo Flight
		Guitarist Charlie Byrd was one such individual, though admittedly the playing field back during his prime was much more populous with publicly lauded and brilliantly accomplished musicians.
		Byrd played along and in the process built up a loyal fan base that continues to this day, critics be damned.
		Byrd’s fretwork is flawless throughout and ironically that’s a big part of the problem.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=12383 (545 words)

	Charlie Byrd - Thanks, Charlie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Charlie was a great inspiration to me in the 1960s when I was first learning to play classical guitar.
		Charlie was also, like everyone knows, one of the nicest people in the business.
		But Charlie's influence and inspiration lives on, in the music of the thousands upon thousands of guitarists and music lovers who listened to and saw his performances for the past 40 years.
	www.jeffgower.com /byrdthanks.html (223 words)

	Back to Byrd-Land
		Last September, jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd and saxman Tommy Newsom were among the eight members of the first class enshrined on Norfolk’s Legends of Music Walk of Fame on Granby Street.
		The Tommy Newsom-Charlie Byrd connection goes back to the 1940s, when Newsom was a student at the Norfolk division of William & Mary, now known as Old Dominion University, and Byrd was a recently returned World War II veteran who had served with the 7th Army in France.
		Byrd had been to South America on a State Department tour that year, and upon his return sent some tapes of the music he’d heard there to saxophonist Stan Getz.
	www.jimnewsom.com /PFW-Byrdland.html (1009 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Charlie Byrd, an elder statesman of the guitar, died of cancer in his Annapolis home Dec. 2.
		Byrd passed away at the age of 74, having led an extraordinary life rich in musical accomplishment.
		Byrd's recordings of Jobim compositions are credited with bringing bossa nova to the States, and the genre's influence has since spread widely throughout American music.
	www.citypaper.com /music/printready.asp?id=8342 (397 words)

	MetroActive Music \| Charlie Byrd
		Indeed, Byrd's well-known flirtation with bossa nova is just part of a deeper love that has spanned five decades.
		In fact, talking to Byrd about the six-string guitar is like dialing into a living repository of music history.
		The Charlie Byrd Trio co-headlines Sunday, Sept. 1, at 1 p.m.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/08.29.96/music-9635.html (764 words)

	Charlie Byrd \| Byrd Song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		On Byrd Song (recorded in 1965) he embellishes his guitar- bass-drums format with a choir that sings vocalese licks (a la Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross) in response to the melodies of the trio.
		Charilie Byrd always had a tendency to tinker with his presentation more than he should-an affectation which makes each of his albums distinctive, but often detracts from the folksy charm of Byrd’s baroque jazz.
		For Charlie Byrd fans this album, long out of print, will not become a favorite, but will prove to be an intriguing listen and a good purchase.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=11473 (302 words)

	Charlie Byrd MP3 Downloads - Charlie Byrd Music Downloads - Charlie Byrd Music Videos
		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.
		A tour of South America under the aegis of the U.S. State Department in 1961, proved to be a revelation, for it was in Brazil that Byrd discovered the emerging bossa nova movement.
	www.mp3.com /charlie-byrd/artists/5337/biography.html (482 words)

	Salon Obituary \| Jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd dies at 74 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Charlie Byrd was a versatile guitarist who left a mark on Brazilian jazz, his innovative play even helping launch a U.S. dance craze.
		In fusing Latin, classical, and jazz styles in a career that spanned five decades, Byrd recorded more than 100 albums — one as recently as September — many with his Charlie Byrd Trio, which included his brother, Joe Byrd, on bass.
		Byrd grew up in Virginia and learned guitar from his father, a mandolin player.
	www.salon.com /people/obit/1999/12/03/byrd/print.html (367 words)

	SalisburyDining
		World-renowned guitarist and composer Charlie Byrd knew in late 1999 he would most likely die of cancer before his concert schedule ended.
		When Charlie died, his extensive music library was donated to the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, making his work available to everyone.
		Byrd said she and her husband put some of the proceeds from the sale of CDs into the personal donation they make to the scholarship fund every year.
	yp.delawareonline.com /fe/SalisburyDining/joebyrd.asp (776 words)

	Famed jazz artist Charlie Byrd dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Charlie Byrd, who fused Latin, classical and jazz styles, and was considered one of the world's most versatile guitarists, has died.
		Many of those recordings were with his Charlie Byrd Trio, which included his brother, Joe, on bass.
		Byrd might be best known for his influence on Brazilian jazz.
	www.bouldernews.com /news/worldnation/03abyrd.html (390 words)

	Charlie Byrd - Music Downloads - Online
		Bio: 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.
		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.
		A tour of South America under the aegis of the U.S. State Department in 1961, proved to be a revelation, for it was in Brazil that Byrd discovered the emerging bossa nova movement.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/572/Charlie-Byrd/1000522.html (343 words)

	Charlie Byrd - Mel Bay Profile
		In 1950, Byrd moved to the Washington, DC area to begin the study of classical guitar with Thomas Simmons and Sophocles Papas, and subsequently traveled to Italy as the pupil of Andres Segovia.
		Charlie Byrd has appeared on numerous TV shows, at the Newport, Monterey, Kansas City, Indiana, Virginia Beach and Concord Jazz Festivals, performed at the White House on several occasions, toured the United Kingdom, both Near and Far East, and Central and South America.
		Charlie Byrd is unquestionably one of the world's most versatile artists and truly a musical institution.
	www.melbay.com /authors.asp?author=37 (780 words)

	Charlie Byrd : Byrd's Word - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		is an early Charlie Byrd recording that finds the guitarist in a variety of settings.
		The idea seems to be showcasing Byrd with a number of friends, including valve trombonist Bobby Felder, tenor saxophonist Buck Hill, and pianist Tee Carson.
		The variety of material and styles gives the impression that Byrd was experimenting, but even so, his experimentation was conservative.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,59822,00.html (338 words)

	Charlie Byrd : Great Guitars - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Charlie Byrd was teamed up with Barney Kessel and Herb Ellis (along with bassist Joe Byrd and drummer John Rae) for this rather exciting concert.
		While Ellis and Kessel have three unaccompanied duets, the inclusion of Byrd (thought of as a Brazilian specialist rather than a bopper) is the wild card that makes this set a major success.
		While Byrd is excellent on his features "Charlie's Blues" and "O Barquinho," it is the three stomps featuring all the guitarists ("Undecided," "Topsy" and "Benny's Bugle") that are most memorable.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,59803,00.html (182 words)

	Jazz Guitar ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Charlie is generally recognized as the founding father of nylon string jazz guitar.
		He was one of the original Great Guitars that recorded on Concord (along with Herb Ellis and Barney Kessel) and is an "elder statesman" of the instrument.
		Other subjects that Charlie covers include blues playing, chromatic substitutions in turnarounds, artificial harmonics and a special section on Bossa Nova rhythms.
	www.jazzguitar.com /features/byrdvid.html (249 words)

	Charlie Byrd (Brazilian Music & Jazz)
		Byrd had been among the first American musicians, along with Jim Hall and Kenny Dorham, to encounter the Brazilian beat, and there's a sure grasp of the idiom, particularly well suited to his classical guitar.
		Byrd's distinctive, harmonically-inventive readings of these Jobim and Bonfa classics should appeal especially to amateur musicians (like myself) seeking to explore the potential of the nylon-string guitar.
		American record companies were to churn out hundreds of watered bossa-pop albums that have since given the style its lounge-addled image, but this album stands as a tribute to the vitality and adaptability of jazz.
	www.thebraziliansound.com /global/byrd.htm (1019 words)

	Review - Charlie Byrd: Byrd Song - Charlie Byrd With Voices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Byrd Song evokes mixed emotions in me. Recorded in 1965 and just remastered this year, it highlights the great Charlie Byrd on acoustic guitar along with Keter Betts on bass and Bill Reichenbach on drums.
		The music of Byrd and his trio is evocative and elegant.
		Charlie Byrd has always been one of the best jazz guitarists around, and his world class acoustic guitar technique was a perfect blend of classical and jazz styles.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-june03/reviews/review_charlie_byrd.html (238 words)

	Charlie Byrd Page in Fuller Up, The Dead Musicians Directory
		Many of those recordings were with his Charlie Byrd Trio, which included his brother, Joe Byrd, on bass.
		Byrd grew up in Virginia and learned guitar from his father, a mandolin player.
		Byrd is survived by his wife, Rebecca, two daughters, one granddaughter and two brothers.
	elvispelvis.com /charliebyrd.htm (1754 words)

	albums - Let Go (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Actually, all of Byrd's Columbia albums from this time period has similar covers—as well as similar programs—in an attempt to sell records (hmm...that doesn't sound like Columbia!).
		Byrd digs into Ellis's "Bird of Paradise," the epic standout of the album, and pulls it off.
		Bill Keane even mentions Don in the liner, though the bulk of the notes is about Teo Macero and the recording process (Charlie is mentioned once or twice).
	home.earthlink.net /~tfronauer/letgo.html (219 words)

	Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba - Verve Records
		In 1961 Byrd returned from a tour of South America, where bossa nova music was thriving.
		The style was the invention of singer Joao Gilberto and songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim -- an adaptation of infectious Brazilian samba rhythms with the harmonic structures and "cool" surface of West Coast jazz.
		Byrd brought back records for Getz to hear, they planned a session, and the result was Jazz Samba -- the first album of true bossa nova music by jazz artists and the one that broke the bossa nova wave in 1960s America.
	www.vervemusicgroup.com /product.aspx?ob=disc&src=art&pid=10307 (469 words)

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