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Bird Lives! (Ira Sullivan album)

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.

Reception

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".

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 <small>Additional track on CD reissue</small>
  8. "Be-Bop/Humpty Dumpty" (Dizzy Gillespie/Ornette Coleman) – 13:24 <small>Additional track on CD reissue</small>

Disc Two:

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

Personnel

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