Bird Lives! (Joe Albany album)

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]

Bird Lives!
Studio album by
Joe Albany
Released1979
RecordedJanuary 4, 1979
StudioRPM Sound Studio, NYC
GenreJazz
Length44:26
LabelInterplay
IP-7723
ProducerToshiya Taenaka
Joe Albany chronology
Live in Paris
(1977)		 Bird Lives!
(1979)		 Portrait of an Artist
(1982)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
All About Jazz[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".[3] 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".[4] 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

References
  1. Interplay Records discography accessed March 19, 2018
  2. Jazzlists: Interplay Records discography: 7700 series, accessed March 19, 2018
  3. Yanow, Scott. Bird Lives! – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  4. Bailey, C. M. All About Jazz Review, accessed 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.
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