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Studio album by Jaki Byard
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Flight of the Fly is a solo album by jazz pianist Jaki Byard .
Recording and music [ edit ]
The album was recorded for the French label Le Chant du Monde [ 1] around 1976.[ 3] The title track contains left-hand stride playing with right-hand hard bop lines.[ 1] "Sweet Georgia Brown " begins as a ballad but then becomes a stride performance.[ 1]
"Flight of the Fly"
"Every Year/Stairway to the Stars/Love Is the Sweetest Thing"
"Sweet Georgia Brown "
"Graduation"
"The Avant Garde of 1921"
^ a b c d Dryden, Ken "Jaki Byard – Flight of the Fly" . Retrieved May 29, 2017.
^ Larkin, Colin (2004) The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz . Virgin.
^ Bruyninckx, Walter 60 Years of Recorded Jazz 1917-1977, Volume 2 . Walter Bruyninckx.
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