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 | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | 1973 | |||
| Recorded | April 25 & 30, 1973 Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 69:36 | |||
| Label | SteepleChase SCS-1003 | |||
| Producer | Nils Winther | |||
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Reception
editAllmusic 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]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [3] |
Track listing
edit- "Birdtown Birds" (Joe Albany) - 5:29
- "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) - 5:22
- "Steeplechase" (Charlie Parker) - 6:22
- "Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Jules LeMare, Harry Tobias) - 3:39
- "Night and Day" (Cole Porter) - 6:35
- "Yardbird Suite" (Parker) - 6:30 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 8:48 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "When Lights Are Low" (Benny Carter, Spencer Williams) - 6:54 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "C. C. Rider" (Ma Rainey) - 6:20
- "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (George Bassman, Ned Washington) - 7:18
- "'Round About Midnight" (Bernie Hanighen, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) - 6:13
- "Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 5:15
Personnel
edit- Joe Albany – piano
- Hugo Rasmussen – bass
- Hans Nymand – drums
References
edit- ^ SteepleChase Records discography, accessed March 19, 2015
- ^ a b Allmusic Review accessed March 19, 2015
- ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.