Donald Byrd
John Abbey, Blues & Soul, February 1976
YOU CAN'T say you weren't warned! The F-J (Funk-Jazz, for those of you who have been up the Amazon for the past year!) Revolution has begun in this country. It's really only natural since in ninety nine cases out of a hundred, we come to accept what is popular in America. But in this case it is particularly satisfying that the man to generate the interest in this country is one of America's pacesetters, too.
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