Birdtown Birds

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
Live album by Joe Albany
Released	1973
Recorded	April 25 & 30, 1973 Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark
Genre	Jazz
Length	69:36
Label	SteepleChase SCS-1003
Producer	Nils Winther
Joe Albany chronology
Proto-Bopper (1972) Birdtown Birds (1973) Two's Company (1973)

Reception

Allmusic 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]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[3]

Track listing

1. "Birdtown Birds" (Joe Albany) - 5:29
2. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) - 5:22
3. "Steeplechase" (Charlie Parker) - 6:22
4. "Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Jules LeMare, Harry Tobias) - 3:39
5. "Night and Day" (Cole Porter) - 6:35
6. "Yardbird Suite" (Parker) - 6:30 Bonus track on CD reissue
7. "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 8:48 Bonus track on CD reissue
8. "When Lights Are Low" (Benny Carter, Spencer Williams) - 6:54 Bonus track on CD reissue
9. "C. C. Rider" (Ma Rainey) - 6:20
10. "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (George Bassman, Ned Washington) - 7:18
11. "'Round About Midnight" (Bernie Hanighen, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) - 6:13
12. "Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 5:15

Personnel

• Joe Albany – piano
• Hugo Rasmussen – bass
• Hans Nymand – drums

References

1. SteepleChase Records discography, accessed March 19, 2015
2. Allmusic Review accessed March 19, 2015
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.