Blythe Byte

Blythe Byte
Studio album by Arthur Blythe
Released	July 24, 2001
Recorded	March 17, 2001
Studio	Tedesco Studio, Paramus, NJ
Genre	Jazz
Length	54:28
Label	Savant SCD 2036
Producer	Cecil 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

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
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

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

• Arthur Blythe – alto saxophone
• John Hicks – piano (tracks 1-8 & 10)
• Dwayne Dolphin – bass (tracks 1-3 & 5-7)
• Cecil Brooks III – drums (tracks 1-3 & 5-7)

References