Bird in a Silver Cage

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Bird in a Silver Cage
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Studio album by Herbie Mann
Released 1976
Recorded 1976
Studio Union Studios, Munich, West Germany
Genre Jazz
Length36:20
Label Atlantic
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]

Herbie Mann American jazz flautist

Herbert Jay Solomon, known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flutist and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet, but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute. His most popular single was "Hijack", which was a Billboard No. 1 dance hit for three weeks in 1975.

Atlantic Records American record label

Atlantic Recording Corporation is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson. Over its first 20 years of operation, Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most important American labels, specializing in jazz, R&B, and soul by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Ruth Brown and Otis Redding. Its position was greatly improved by its distribution deal with Stax. In 1967, Atlantic became a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, now the Warner Music Group, and expanded into rock and pop music with releases by Led Zeppelin and Yes.

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Reception

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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]

AllMusic online music database

AllMusic is an online music database. It catalogs more than 3 million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musical artists and bands. It launched in 1991, predating the World Wide Web.

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

Flute musical instrument of the woodwind family

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening. According to the instrument classification of Hornbostel–Sachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones. A musician who plays the flute can be referred to as a flute player, flautist, flutist or, less commonly, fluter or flutenist.

Sylvester Levay is a Serbian-born Hungarian recording artist and composer.

Keyboard instrument class of musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos. Other keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, which are usually housed in bell towers or belfries of churches or municipal buildings.

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References

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