Donald Byrd--"I've Longed and Searched For My Mother" (1965)

William Claxton: "Donald Byrd on the 'A' Train" (1959)Dr. Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 -2013) is most remembered for the funky sides he dropped with the Mizell Brothers in the 1970s--"(Fallin Like) Dominoes" and "Flight Time"--and for mentoring young Black musicians at HBCUs like Howard University (The Blackbyrds) and North Carolina Central University (125th St NYC Band). But even before that point he was an innovative artist, as evidenced by his Brass with Voice recording I'm Trying to Get Home (1965), where -"I've Longed and Searched For My Mother" is taken from.