Cristo Redentor
Context
Composition and arrangement by Duke Pearson for the album A New Perspective, on which Byrd combines jazz with spirituals, with a wordless chorus conducted by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Byrd called the record a "modern hymnal."
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Hard bop, Spiritual jazz. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).