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Birdtown Birds
Type:	Live album
Artist:	Joe Albany
Cover:	Birdtown Birds.jpg
Released:	1973
Recorded:	April 25 & 30, 1973 Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	69:36
Label:	SteepleChase SCS-1003
Producer:	Nils Winther
Prev Title:	Proto-Bopper
Prev Year:	1972
Next Title:	Two's Company
Next Year:	1973

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]

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".

Track listing

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

Personnel

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

Notes and References

http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Steeplechase_1000.htm SteepleChase Records discography
Allmusic Review