''The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd'' is an album by American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd featuring tracks recorded in 1960 and released on the Riverside Records, Riverside label in 1963. The album was first released on the Washington Records Offbeat imprint as ''Charlie's Choice: Jazz at the Showboat, Vol. 4'' but only received limited distribution prior to Byrd signing with Riverside.Washington Records discography
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Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars stating "The melodic music is pleasing (if not too substantial), predictable and reasonably enjoyable".Yanow, S
Allmusic Review
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Track listing

# "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John La Touche (lyricist), John Latouche) - 1:57 # "Moonlight in Vermont (song), Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn (songwriter), John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) - 2:53 # "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) - 3:47 # "Nuages" (Django Reinhardt) - 3:04 # "Ev'rything I've Got" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:22 # "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) - 2:45 # "Django (composition), Django" (John Lewis (pianist), John Lewis) - 3:25 # "Nice Work If You Can Get It (song), Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 1:49 # "The House of the Rising Sun" (Traditional) - 5:30 # "Ring Them Harmonics" (Keter Betts) - 3:51 # "Taboo" (Margarita Lecuona, Bob Russell (songwriter), Bob Russell) - 9:45 # "To Ginny" (Charlie Byrd) - 5:25

Personnel

*Charlie Byrd - guitar *Keter Betts - Double bass, bass *Buddy Deppenschmidt - drum kit, drums

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd, The 1963 albums Charlie Byrd albums Riverside Records albums