Bird Lives! (Ira Sullivan album)
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Live album by Ira Sullivan and the Chicago Jazz Quintet | ||||
Released | 1963 | |||
Recorded | March 12, 1962 | |||
Venue | Birdhouse, Chicago, IL | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Vee-Jay VJLP 3033 | |||
Producer | Joe Segal | |||
Ira Sullivan chronology | ||||
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Bird Lives! is a live album by multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan which was recorded in Chicago in 1962 and released on the Vee-Jay label on LP before being reissued as a double CD with additional material in 1993.[1][2][3]
Reception
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The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated "Ira Sullivan's quintet played at a Charlie Parker Memorial concert in Chicago on Mar. 12, 1962 and the results (six selections) were originally released on a single LP. The release of this double CD greatly expanded the program. ... Overall, a fine bop set".[4]
Track listing
All compositions by Charlie Parker except where noted
Disc One:
- "Klact-Oveeseds-Tene" – 8:30
- "In Other Words" (Bart Howard) – 6:13
- "Shaw 'Nuff" ((Ray Brown, Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie) – 2:25
- "Perhaps" – 6:04
- "Love Letters" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 5:08
- "Mohawk" – 8:31
- "Si Si" – 15:16 Additional track on CD reissue
- "Be-Bop/Humpty Dumpty" (Dizzy Gillespie/Ornette Coleman) – 13:24 Additional track on CD reissue
Disc Two:
- "Milestones" (John Lewis) – 8:14 Additional track on CD reissue
- "Sketches" (Lewis) – 8:14 Additional track on CD reissue
- "Omicron" (Donald Byrd) – 10:33 Additional track on CD reissue
- "On the Alamo" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 9:58 Additional track on CD reissue
- "Inchworm" (Frank Loesser) – 8:53 Additional track on CD reissue
- "Back Home Blues" – 7:33 Additional track on CD reissue
- "For You, For Me, For Evermore" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 5:19 Additional track on CD reissue
Personnel
- Ira Sullivan – trumpet, flugelhorn
- Nicky Hill – tenor saxophone
- Jodie Christian – piano
- Don Garrett – bass
- Dorell Anderson or Wilbur Campbell – drums
References
- ^ Vee-Jay Album Discography, Part 3: Jazz Series (1959-1978), accessed October 17, 2017
- ^ Ira Sullivan discography, accessed October 17, 2017
- ^ Ira Sullivan catalog, accessed October 17, 2017
- ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Ira Sullivan: Bird Lives! – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1352. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.