Bird Lives! (Ira Sullivan album)

Bird Lives!
Live album by Ira Sullivan and the Chicago Jazz Quintet
Released	1963
Recorded	March 12, 1962
Venue	Birdhouse, Chicago, IL
Genre	Jazz
Label	Vee-Jay VJLP 3033
Producer	Joe Segal
Ira Sullivan chronology
Blue Stroll (1959) Bird Lives! (1963) Horizons (1967)

Bird Lives! is a live album by multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan which was recorded in Chicago in 1962 and released on the Vee-Jay label on LP before being reissued as a double CD with additional material in 1993. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[5]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated "Ira Sullivan's quintet played at a Charlie Parker Memorial concert in Chicago on Mar. 12, 1962 and the results (six selections) were originally released on a single LP. The release of this double CD greatly expanded the program. ... Overall, a fine bop set". ^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Charlie Parker except where noted

Disc One:

1. "Klact-Oveeseds-Tene" – 8:30
2. "In Other Words" (Bart Howard) – 6:13
3. "Shaw 'Nuff" (Ray Brown, Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie) – 2:25
4. "Perhaps" – 6:04
5. "Love Letters" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 5:08
6. "Mohawk" – 8:31
7. "Si Si" – 15:16 Additional track on CD reissue
8. "Be-Bop/Humpty Dumpty" (Dizzy Gillespie/Ornette Coleman) – 13:24 Additional track on CD reissue

Disc Two:

1. "Milestones" (John Lewis) – 8:14 Additional track on CD reissue
2. "Sketches" (Lewis) – 8:14 Additional track on CD reissue
3. "Omicron" (Donald Byrd) – 10:33 Additional track on CD reissue
4. "On the Alamo" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 9:58 Additional track on CD reissue
5. "Inchworm" (Frank Loesser) – 8:53 Additional track on CD reissue
6. "Back Home Blues" – 7:33 Additional track on CD reissue
7. "For You, For Me, For Evermore" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 5:19 Additional track on CD reissue

Personnel

• Ira Sullivan – trumpet, flugelhorn
• Nicky Hill – tenor saxophone
• Jodie Christian – piano
• Don Garrett – bass
• Dorell Anderson or Wilbur Campbell – drums

References

1. Vee-Jay Album Discography, Part 3: Jazz Series (1959-1978), accessed October 17, 2017
2. Ira Sullivan discography, accessed October 17, 2017
3. Ira Sullivan catalog, accessed October 17, 2017
4. Yanow, Scott. Ira Sullivan: Bird Lives! – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved October 17, 2017.
5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1352. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.