Birdtown Birds


Birdtown Birds is an album by American pianist Joe Albany recorded at the Jazzhus Montmartre in 1973 and released on the SteepleChase label.

Reception

awarded the album 3 stars. The [Penguin Guide to Jazz] expressed a preference for Two's Company (Joe Albany and [Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen album)|Two's Company], and wrote that "Albany often sounds less radical than merely clumsy and the solo passages are rife with misfingerings".

Track listing

  1. "Birdtown Birds" - 5:29
  2. "Willow Weep for Me" - 5:22
  3. "Steeplechase" - 6:22
  4. "Sweet and Lovely" - 3:39
  5. "Night and Day" - 6:35
  6. "Yardbird Suite" - 6:30 Bonus track on CD reissue
  7. "All the Things You Are" - 8:48 Bonus track on CD reissue
  8. "When Lights Are Low" - 6:54 Bonus track on CD reissue
  9. "C. C. Rider" - 6:20
  10. "I'm [Getting Sentimental Over You]" - 7:18
  11. "'Round About Midnight" - 6:13
  12. "Night in Tunisia" - 5:15

Personnel