Legends Winston Byrd:
The Legendary Winston Byrd:
Legends Brass Signature Series Winston Byrd Mouthpiece: endorsed and played by the legendary Winston Byrd! Legends Brass is delighted to offer this mouthpiece to our customers. The rim on this model is semi-round, soft, and wide enough to offset lip swelling. There is a very slight undercut for a little chop room. The cup is a shallow drop-V. The entrance to the throat is rounded to allow good air flow and a nice big sound, despite the small inside diameter. The Legends Byrd was inspired by a classic well-known mouthpiece, but it is not a copy. It has the Legends enhanced throat (#27), throat cylinder length, and Legends S backbore. Slotting is excellent with the Legends Byrd. This model is suitable for playing any style of music, but it is geared toward upper register work. This piece will help you soar like a "Byrd"!
Legends Winston Byrd Specs:
Outside Rim Diameter: 1.075" (27.305 mm)
Outside Rim Contour: Medium
Inside Rim Diameter: .603" (15.31 mm)
Inside Rim Contour: Drop-V
Cup Depth: Similar to Bach F
This model is kept in stock in lightweight, standard weight and heavyweight blanks. Additional blanks are available; see "Special Order Blank" on the buy page for more details. This piece can be further customized to your desired specs. Please see Legends Brass Custom Designs for additional information.
Legends Winston Byrd Specs:
Outside Rim Diameter: 1.075" (27.305 mm)
Outside Rim Contour: Medium
Inside Rim Diameter: .603" (15.31 mm)
Inside Rim Contour: Drop-V
Cup Depth: Similar to Bach F
This model is kept in stock in lightweight, standard weight and heavyweight blanks. Additional blanks are available; see "Special Order Blank" on the buy page for more details. This piece can be further customized to your desired specs. Please see Legends Brass Custom Designs for additional information.
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November 6, 2015: Legends Brass salutes the legendary Winston Byrd for his knockout performance with Meghan Trainor on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon! Click here to watch the video.
Winston Byrd with his signature series mouthpiece.
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Winston Byrd playing his custom Legends flugel mouthpiece.
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Legends Brass applauds the fine performance of Craig Robinson and the Nasty Delicious, featuring Mr. Winston Byrd, on their performance at the American Comedy Awards 2014!! Below is a short highlight from the show with Mr. Byrd on trumpet.
About the legendary Winston Byrd:
Winston Byrd was initially bitten by the 'jazz bug' as a seventh grader when he heard Maynard Ferguson's playing of 'Give It One.' Soon after, he witnessed Dizzy Gillespie and Jon Faddis trading solos on 'Groovin High' on a 1986 Grammy Awards telecast. A 1991 graduate of Gateway Regional High School in southern New Jersey, Mr. Byrd has had a career more like his forbears than his contemporaries; like jazz musicians of the mid-20th century, he developed his chops and style on the road in bands big and small, rather than in the classroom. Planning to go New York University to study Clinical Psychology, he detoured to go on the road (initially with the Stylistics), and never returned to college.
Enamored of high note playing, he worked at being able to articulate in the 'stratosphere', and then the young trumpeter became a multi-talented improviser in swing, hard-bop, bebop, funk, smooth jazz as well being versed in studies of classical trumpet. He earned gigs as a lead trumpeter in big bands including those of Illinois Jacquet, David Murray, Slide Hampton, Louie Bellson and Oliver Lake, as well as the Count Basie Orchestra, Duke Ellington Orchestra and Blood, Sweat and Tears. Trumpeter Jon Faddis became an early role model and mentor, and Mr. Byrd has played in the trumpet section of the Faddis-led 'Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band'.Another influence and current mentor is Arturo Sandoval. Winston has also performed, recorded, and/or toured with a myriad of big name jazz and pop artists and orchestras including The Chi-Lites, Patti Austin, The Dells, The Grateful Dead, Lionel Hampton, Michael Bolton, Illinois Jacquet Big Band, Roy Hargrove Big Band, Pieces Of A Dream, Claudio Roditi, David Murray, Oliver Lake Big Band, Larry Coryell, Aretha Franklin, Charles Tolliver Big Band, The Stylistics, Natalie Cole, Arturo Sandoval, The Village Vanguard Orchestra, Mary Wilson (of the Supremes), Chucho Valdes, Louie Bellson, T.S. Monk, David 'Fathead' Newman, Chaka Khan, Clark Terry (who suprise-guested with Winston on his All-Star 31st birthday concert!), James Moody, The Dramatics, Shirley Horn, Paquito d' Rivera, Lucky Peterson, Bernard Purdie, Diane Schuur, Don Rickles, Usher, Abbey Lincoln and the Charles Mingus Big Band among others!
Mr. Byrd, who leads his own bands (one in New York, one in Los Angeles) has recently recorded his first CD, 'Soul Searchin.' His compositions can be heard on the CD, as well as on T.S. Monk's latest release, 'Higher Ground' (Mr. Byrd is a former member of the T.S. Monk Band). Since moving to Los Angeles (as well as keeping a base in New York City as well), Winston has been keeping busy with even MANY more artists on the West Coast, such as the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, the Frank Capp Juggernaut, the Buddy Collette Big Band, Steve March Torme, Eric Benet, The Don Ellis Reunion Big Band, Craig Robinson (of the NBC hit show, The Office), Ernie Andrews and also performing on the L.A. based award shows such as the Grammys & the B.E.T. awards!!! Along with these many attributes, Mr. Byrd has organized his Los Angeles based Jazz Orchestra which has been leaving audiences speechless since being formed just a year ago with some of L.A.'s finest and hottest players!!!
Click here to read an article about Mr. Byrd's latest CD: Once Upon A Time Called Right Now
Winston Byrd was initially bitten by the 'jazz bug' as a seventh grader when he heard Maynard Ferguson's playing of 'Give It One.' Soon after, he witnessed Dizzy Gillespie and Jon Faddis trading solos on 'Groovin High' on a 1986 Grammy Awards telecast. A 1991 graduate of Gateway Regional High School in southern New Jersey, Mr. Byrd has had a career more like his forbears than his contemporaries; like jazz musicians of the mid-20th century, he developed his chops and style on the road in bands big and small, rather than in the classroom. Planning to go New York University to study Clinical Psychology, he detoured to go on the road (initially with the Stylistics), and never returned to college.
Enamored of high note playing, he worked at being able to articulate in the 'stratosphere', and then the young trumpeter became a multi-talented improviser in swing, hard-bop, bebop, funk, smooth jazz as well being versed in studies of classical trumpet. He earned gigs as a lead trumpeter in big bands including those of Illinois Jacquet, David Murray, Slide Hampton, Louie Bellson and Oliver Lake, as well as the Count Basie Orchestra, Duke Ellington Orchestra and Blood, Sweat and Tears. Trumpeter Jon Faddis became an early role model and mentor, and Mr. Byrd has played in the trumpet section of the Faddis-led 'Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band'.Another influence and current mentor is Arturo Sandoval. Winston has also performed, recorded, and/or toured with a myriad of big name jazz and pop artists and orchestras including The Chi-Lites, Patti Austin, The Dells, The Grateful Dead, Lionel Hampton, Michael Bolton, Illinois Jacquet Big Band, Roy Hargrove Big Band, Pieces Of A Dream, Claudio Roditi, David Murray, Oliver Lake Big Band, Larry Coryell, Aretha Franklin, Charles Tolliver Big Band, The Stylistics, Natalie Cole, Arturo Sandoval, The Village Vanguard Orchestra, Mary Wilson (of the Supremes), Chucho Valdes, Louie Bellson, T.S. Monk, David 'Fathead' Newman, Chaka Khan, Clark Terry (who suprise-guested with Winston on his All-Star 31st birthday concert!), James Moody, The Dramatics, Shirley Horn, Paquito d' Rivera, Lucky Peterson, Bernard Purdie, Diane Schuur, Don Rickles, Usher, Abbey Lincoln and the Charles Mingus Big Band among others!
Mr. Byrd, who leads his own bands (one in New York, one in Los Angeles) has recently recorded his first CD, 'Soul Searchin.' His compositions can be heard on the CD, as well as on T.S. Monk's latest release, 'Higher Ground' (Mr. Byrd is a former member of the T.S. Monk Band). Since moving to Los Angeles (as well as keeping a base in New York City as well), Winston has been keeping busy with even MANY more artists on the West Coast, such as the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, the Frank Capp Juggernaut, the Buddy Collette Big Band, Steve March Torme, Eric Benet, The Don Ellis Reunion Big Band, Craig Robinson (of the NBC hit show, The Office), Ernie Andrews and also performing on the L.A. based award shows such as the Grammys & the B.E.T. awards!!! Along with these many attributes, Mr. Byrd has organized his Los Angeles based Jazz Orchestra which has been leaving audiences speechless since being formed just a year ago with some of L.A.'s finest and hottest players!!!
Click here to read an article about Mr. Byrd's latest CD: Once Upon A Time Called Right Now
