| Caricatures | ||||
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| Released | 1976 | |||
| Recorded | April–May, 1976 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Blue Note BN-LA633-G | |||
| Producer | Larry Mizell | |||
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Caricatures is an album by American trumpeter Donald Byrd recorded and released on the Blue Note label in 1976. [1] It was Byrd's final album for the label and his fifth straight release produced by Larry Mizell.
The AllMusic review by Rob Theakston awarded the album 3 stars and stated "Caricatures serves its primary purpose of being a jazz fusion record to make both people dance and purists wince at the notion that jazz can fuse with other elements and achieve success". [2]
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