Bird Lives! (Ira Sullivan album) explained

Bird Lives!
Type:	Live album
Artist:	Ira Sullivan and the Chicago Jazz Quintet
Cover:	Bird Lives! (Ira Sullivan album).jpg
Released:	1963
Recorded:	March 12, 1962
Venue:	Birdhouse, Chicago, IL
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Vee-Jay
Producer:	Joe Segal
Chronology:	Ira Sullivan
Prev Title:	Blue Stroll
Prev Year:	1959
Next Title:	Horizons
Next Year:	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

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:

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

Disc Two:

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

Personnel

Ira Sullivan – trumpet, flugelhorn
Nicky Hill – tenor saxophone
Jodie Christian – piano
Don Garrett – bass

Notes and References

http://www.bsnpubs.com/veejay/veejayjazz.html Vee-Jay Album Discography, Part 3: Jazz Series (1959-1978)
http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Sullivan/is-disc.htm Ira Sullivan discography
https://www.jazzdisco.org/ira-sullivan/catalog/#vee-jay-vjlp-3033 Ira Sullivan catalog