Sunset and the Mockingbird explained

Sunset and the Mockingbird
Type:	Live album
Artist:	Tommy Flanagan
Cover:	Sunset and the Mockingbird.jpg
Released:	1998
Recorded:	March 16, 1997
Venue:	Village Vanguard, New York City
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	133:39
Label:	Blue Note 7243 4 93155 2
Producer:	Diana Flanagan
Chronology:	Tommy Flanagan
Prev Title:	Sea Changes
Prev Year:	1996

Sunset and the Mockingbird (subtitled The Birthday Concert) is a live album by pianist Tommy Flanagan recorded at the Village Vanguard in 1997 on his 67th birthday and released on the Blue Note label.^{[1] [2]}

Reception

AllMusic gave the album 4 stars with Ken Dryden's review calling it a "memorable set". In JazzTimes, Bill Bennett wrote: "This is one of those recordings that defines the art of the piano trio in jazz. Tommy Flanagan's musical wisdom shines through at every juncture of these performances".^[3] On All About Jazz, Jack Bowers said "As he nears 70, Tommy Flanagan, like fine wine, becomes more pleasurable and venerated with each passing day. He plays with warmth, vigor, soul, an unerring sense of rhythm and dynamics, and any other ingredient one could wish for in a Jazz pianist".^[4]

Track listing

1. "Birdsong" (Thad Jones) – 9:16
2. "With Malice Toward None" (Tom McIntosh) – 10:26
3. "Let's" (Jones) – 7:19
4. "I Waited for You" (Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie) – 5:27
5. "Tin Tin Deo" (Fuller, Chano Pozo) – 14:34
6. "Sunset and the Mockingbird" (Duke Ellington) – 5:52
7. "The Balanced Scales/The Cupbearers" (Mcintosh) – 12:42
8. "Good Night My Love" (Mack Gordon, Harry Revel) – 4:08

Personnel

• Tommy Flanagan – piano
  • Peter Washington – bass Lewis Nash – drums

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/tommy-flanagan/catalog/#blue-note-7243-4-93155-2 Tommy Flanagan Catalog
2. http://www.bluenote.com/artists/tommy-flanagan/sunset-and-the-mockingbird Blue Note Records album entry
3. Bennett, B. JazzTimes Review, April 1999
4. Bowers, J. All About Jazz Review, October 1, 1998