Bird in a Silver Cage

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Bird in a Silver Cage
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Studio album by
Released1976
Recorded1976
StudioUnion Studios, Munich, West Germany
Genre Jazz
Length36:20
Label Atlantic Records
SD 18209
Producer Michael Kunze, Sylvester Levay
Herbie Mann chronology
Reggae II
(1976)
Bird in a Silver Cage
(1976)
Gagaku & Beyond
(1976)

Bird in a Silver Cage is an album by flautist Herbie Mann recorded in 1976 and released on the Atlantic Records label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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AllMusic site awarded the album 2 stars and its review by Jim Newsome states: "Another example of Herbie Mann's quest for new playing environments leading him to follow another trend, in this case the disco music coming out of Germany in the mid-to-late seventies". [2]

Track listing

  1. "Bird in a Silver Cage" (Sylvester Levay) – 12:51
  2. "Aria" (Dario Baldan Bembo, Sergio Bardotti) – 4:51
  3. "Fly, Robin, Fly" (Levay, Stephan Prager) – 1:06
  4. "Birdwalk" (Levay, Herbie Mann) – 7:34
  5. "Years of Love" (Levay) – 3:32
  6. "The Piper" (Mann) – 6:26

Personnel

References

  1. Atlantic Records Discography: 1976 accessed 31 August 2015
  2. 1 2 Newsome, Jim. Bird in a Silver Cage – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved August 31, 2015.