Birdtown Birds

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Birdtown Birds
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Live album by
Joe Albany
Released1973
RecordedApril 25 & 30, 1973
Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark
Genre Jazz
Length69:36
Label SteepleChase
SCS-1003
Producer Nils Winther
Joe Albany chronology
Proto-Bopper
(1972)		Birdtown Birds
(1973)		 Two's Company
(1973)

Birdtown Birds (subtitled Recorded Live at Montmartre) is an album by American pianist Joe Albany recorded at the Jazzhus Montmartre in 1973 and released on the SteepleChase label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars. [2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz expressed a preference for Two's Company , and wrote that "Albany often sounds less radical than merely clumsy and the solo passages are rife with misfingerings". [3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Track listing

  1. "Birdtown Birds" (Joe Albany) - 5:29
  2. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) - 5:22
  3. "Steeplechase" (Charlie Parker) - 6:22
  4. "Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Jules LeMare, Harry Tobias) - 3:39
  5. "Night and Day" (Cole Porter) - 6:35
  6. "Yardbird Suite" (Parker) - 6:30 Bonus track on CD reissue
  7. "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 8:48 Bonus track on CD reissue
  8. "When Lights Are Low" (Benny Carter, Spencer Williams) - 6:54 Bonus track on CD reissue
  9. "C. C. Rider" (Ma Rainey) - 6:20
  10. "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (George Bassman, Ned Washington) - 7:18
  11. "'Round About Midnight" (Bernie Hanighen, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) - 6:13
  12. "Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 5:15

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ SteepleChase Records discography, accessed March 19, 2015
  2. 1 2 Allmusic Review accessed March 19, 2015
  3. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 15. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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