Bird Is Free

Last updated

Bird Is Free
The Bird is Free Album Cover.jpg
Live album by
Charlie Parker
Released1961 (1961)
Recorded26 September 1952
VenueRockland Palace, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length36:39
Charlie Parker chronology
Swedish Schnapps
(1958)		Bird Is Free
(1961)		 One Night in Birdland
(1977)

Bird Is Free is an album by Charlie Parker that documents a concert given at Rockland Palace, New York City, on 26 September 1952. [1] In 1997, Jazz Classics released a more complete documentation of the concert with improved recording quality, Live at Rockland Palace . [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
DownBeat Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [3]

The DownBeat reviewer, Leonard Feather, identified limitations of the audio quality, and added: "When Parker begins to play, however, you will forget all about distractions. ... There is brilliant, boiling, poetic Bird in a variety of attitudes here." [3] The AllMusic review concluded: "Throughout, Parker plays with inimitable style and good humor and his quartet, featuring the great drummer Max Roach, swings effortlessly". [1]

Track listing

Side 1
  1. Rocker (Gerry Mulligan)
  2. Sly Mongoose (Jamaican trad.)
  3. Moose the Mooche (Parker)
  4. Star Eyes (Gene de Paul, Don Raye)
Side 2
  1. This Time the Dream's on Me (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)
  2. Cool Blues (Parker)
  3. My Little Suede Shoes (Parker)
  4. Lester Leaps In (Lester Young)
  5. Laura (Raksin, Mercer)

Personnel

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Bird Is Free: Charlie Parker". AllMusic . Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  2. ↑ Jazz, All About (February 1, 1997). "Charlie Parker: The Complete Legendary Rockland Palace Concert album review @ All About Jazz". All About Jazz. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
  3. 1 2 Feather, Leonard (September 28, 1961). "Charlie Parker: Bird Is Free". DownBeat . Vol. 28, no. 20. pp. 35–36.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.