Birdtown Birds

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]

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

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[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[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

References
  1. SteepleChase Records discography, accessed March 19, 2015
  2. Allmusic Review accessed March 19, 2015
  3. 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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