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Blythe Byte

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Blythe Byte
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 24, 2001
RecordedMarch 17, 2001
StudioTedesco Studio, Paramus, NJ
GenreJazz
Length54:28
LabelSavant
SCD 2036
ProducerCecil Brooks III
Arthur Blythe chronology
Spirits in the Field
(2000)
Blythe Byte
(2001)
Focus
(2002)

Blythe Byte is an album by the saxophonist Arthur Blythe, recorded in 2001 and released on the Savant label.[1]

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

In his review on AllMusic, arwulf arwulf called it "a well-balanced assortment".[2] In JazzTimes, Bill Bennett wrote: "Working here in (and out of) a quartet setting, Blythe dances deftly between what we know and what he wants to show us".[4]

Track listing

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All compositions by Arthur Blythe except where noted

  1. "Hardly" – 7:29
  2. "Besame Mucho" (Consuelo Velázquez, Sunny Skylar) – 5:47
  3. "Blue Monk" (Thelonious Monk) – 6:09
  4. "Light Blue" (Monk) – 5:02
  5. "And One" (Dwayne Dolphin) – 6:23
  6. "My Little Brown Book" (Billy Strayhorn) – 6:15
  7. "Naima" (John Coltrane) – 6:11
  8. "Ruby, My Dear" (Monk) – 6:00
  9. "Blythe Byte" – 0:43
  10. "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" (Joseph Scriven, Charles Crozat Converse) – 4:29

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Jazz Depot: album entry accessed March 9, 2018
  2. ^ a b arwulf, arwulf. Arthur Blythe – Blythe Byte: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ Bennett, B. JazzTimes Review, accessed March 9, 2018