At The Half Note Café Vol. 1 (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP SOV_New Releases We Rock Hard would become

We Rock Hard would become their most commercially successful release to date and this reissue cherry picks four of the biggest tracks from the album

Tomorrow Morning

Griselda and Dïat – chopping and screwing beats on a dusty SP-404 and a Sequential Circuits Tempest

While Deciphering The Message collects songs from several years of Blue Note history

and Irene Cara’s theme from the original 1980 film enjoyed massive success

At The Half Note Café Vol. 1 (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP SOV_New Releases We Rock Hard would becomeTrumpeter Donald Byrd was just 2 years into his 2 decade long Blue Note recording career when he brought his quintet in to Manhattans Half Note Caf in November 1960 to record this soulful, swinging, and highly enjoyable live set of hard bop featuring Pepper Adams on baritone saxophone, Duke Pearson on piano, Laymon Jackson on bass, and Lex Humphries on drums. Byrd had already established himself as a leading trumpeter on the scene and was riding high