Bird Lives! (Joe Albany album)

Bird Lives!
Studio album by Joe Albany
Released	1979
Recorded	January 4, 1979
Studio	RPM Sound Studio, NYC
Genre	Jazz
Length	44:26
Label	Interplay IP-7723
Producer	Toshiya Taenaka
Joe Albany chronology
Live in Paris (1977) Bird Lives! (1979) Portrait of an Artist (1982)

Bird Lives! (also released as Now's the Time) is an album by pianist Joe Albany, recorded in 1979 and released on the Interplay label. ^{[1] [2]}

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	[3]
AllMusic	[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[5]

AllMusic's Scott Yanow said: "Joe Albany's next-to-last recording features the veteran bop pianist performing seven Charlie Parker compositions, his own 'Charlie Parker Blues' and the standard They Can't Take That Away From Me' in a superb trio ... This was the perfect setting for Albany and he comes up with fresh ideas ... easily recommended to bop lovers". ^[4] On All About Jazz , C. Michael Bailey stated: "Albany, who had a reputation for being hard to corral musically in the confines of a trio, plays in very good form in the setting". ^[3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz described it as "one of the best sets Albany managed to record". ^[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Charlie Parker except where noted.

1. "Now's the Time" – 4:15
2. "Yardbird Suite" – 4:28
3. "Bluebird" – 4:03
4. "Charlie Parker Blues" (Joe Albany, Art Davis, Roy Haynes) – 6:06
5. "Little Suede Shoes" – 4:39
6. "Billie's Bounce" – 4:09
7. "Confirmation" – 5:19
8. "Barbados" – 5:02
9. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin ) – 6:25

Personnel

• Joe Albany – piano
• Art Davis – bass
• Roy Haynes – drums

References

1. Interplay Records discography accessed March 19, 2018
2. Jazzlists: Interplay Records discography: 7700 series, accessed March 19, 2018
3. Bailey, C. M. All About Jazz Review, accessed March 19, 2018
4. Yanow, Scott. Bird Lives! – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved March 19, 2018.
5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 16. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.