Bird Lives! (Ira Sullivan album)

Bird Lives!
Live album by
Ira Sullivan and the Chicago Jazz Quintet
Released1963
RecordedMarch 12, 1962
VenueBirdhouse, Chicago, IL
GenreJazz
LabelVee-Jay
VJLP 3033
ProducerJoe Segal
Ira Sullivan chronology
Blue Stroll
(1959) 		Bird Lives!
(1963) 		Horizons
(1967)

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

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[5]

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:

  1. "Klact-Oveeseds-Tene" – 8:30
  2. "In Other Words" (Bart Howard) – 6:13
  3. "Shaw 'Nuff" ((Ray Brown, Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie) – 2:25
  4. "Perhaps" – 6:04
  5. "Love Letters" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 5:08
  6. "Mohawk" – 8:31
  7. "Si Si" – 15:16 Additional track on CD reissue
  8. "Be-Bop/Humpty Dumpty" (Dizzy Gillespie/Ornette Coleman) – 13:24 Additional track on CD reissue

Disc Two:

  1. "Milestones" (John Lewis) – 8:14 Additional track on CD reissue
  2. "Sketches" (Lewis) – 8:14 Additional track on CD reissue
  3. "Omicron" (Donald Byrd) – 10:33 Additional track on CD reissue
  4. "On the Alamo" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 9:58 Additional track on CD reissue
  5. "Inchworm" (Frank Loesser) – 8:53 Additional track on CD reissue
  6. "Back Home Blues" – 7:33 Additional track on CD reissue
  7. "For You, For Me, For Evermore" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 5:19 Additional track on CD reissue

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Vee-Jay Album Discography, Part 3: Jazz Series (1959-1978), accessed October 17, 2017
  2. ^ Ira Sullivan discography, accessed October 17, 2017
  3. ^ Ira Sullivan catalog, accessed October 17, 2017
  4. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Ira Sullivan: Bird Lives! – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
  5. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1352. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.