Blackjack (Donald Byrd album)

Blackjack
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 1968[1]
RecordedJanuary 9, 1967
May 27, 1963 (Bonus track)
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreJazz
Length40:36
LabelBlue Note
BLP 4259
BST 84259
ProducerAlfred Lion
Donald Byrd chronology
Mustang!
(1966)
Blackjack
(1968)
Slow Drag
(1967)

Blackjack is an album by American trumpeter Donald Byrd featuring performances by Byrd with Sonny Red, Hank Mobley, Cedar Walton, Walter Booker, and Billy Higgins recorded in 1967 and released on the Blue Note label as BLP 4259.[2] The CD reissue included one bonus track recorded in 1963. The title track was sampled by Gang Starr & Dream Warriors in their 1991 collaboration "I've Lost My Ignorance".

  1. ^ Billboard Mar 9, 1968
  2. ^ Donald Byrd discography accessed September 2, 2010