Classic Album Sundays: The Blackbyrds 'Flying Start'

CAS founder Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy speaks with Keith Killgo, a founding member of The Blackbyrds, about their seminal jazz-funk album Flying Start . The Blackbyrds were inspired by jazz trumpet player and educator Donald Byrd and the band featured some of Byrd's Howard University students. They signed to Fantasy Records in 1973 and in 1974, released two albums, their eponymously titled debut and…