By 1975 Donald Byrd had stopped being a hard-bop trumpeter and become a hit-making bandleader. Places and Spaces, produced by the Mizell brothers, is the peak of that pivot, all silken strings, vocoder funk, and disco-jazz polish. Purists called it a sellout. Diggers call it one of the most sampled albums in hip-hop.
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