Bird Lives! | ||||
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Released | 1979 | |||
Recorded | January 4, 1979 | |||
Studio | RPM Sound Studio, NYC | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 44:26 | |||
Label | Interplay IP-7723 | |||
Producer | Toshiya Taenaka | |||
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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]
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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]
All compositions by Charlie Parker except where noted.