Bird's Grass

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Bird's Grass
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Studio album by
Released1985
RecordedDecember 10, 1976
Copenhagen, Denmark
Genre Jazz
Length55:56
Label SteepleChase
SCS 1202
Producer Nils Winther
Idrees Sulieman chronology
Now Is the Time
(1976)
Bird's Grass
(1985)
Groovin'
(1985)

Bird's Grass is a studio album by trumpeter Idrees Sulieman recorded in 1976 but not released on the SteepleChase label until 1985. [1] [2]

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Reception

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Scott Yanow of AllMusic reviewed the album, stating "Excellent music with plenty of colorful solos". [3]

Track listing

  1. "Wee" (Denzil Best) 4:57
  2. "The Summer Knows" (Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) 6:27
  3. "Billie's Bounce" (Charlie Parker) 12:35
  4. "Loneliness Is a Mutual Feeling" (Per Goldschmidt) 10:36
  5. "All Your Words" (Sulieman) 10:14
  6. "Loneliness Is a Mutual Feeling" [Alternate Take] (Goldschmidt) 11:07 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

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References

  1. SteepleChase Records discography accessed March 31, 2015
  2. SteepleChase Productions ApS, accessed June 19, 2017
  3. 1 2 Yanow, S., AllMusic Review, March 31, 2015