Bird Songs: The Final Recordings

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Bird Songs: The Final Recordings
Bird Songs The Final Recordings.jpg
Live album by
Dizzy Gillespie
Released1992
RecordedJanuary 23–25, 1992
VenueBlue Note Jazz Club, Greenwich Village, New York City
GenreJazz
Length62:58
LabelTelarc
83421
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
The Winter in Lisbon
(1990) 		Bird Songs: The Final Recordings
(1992) 		To Bird with Love
(1992)

Bird Songs: The Final Recordings is a live album trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie with an array of guest stars recorded at the Blue Note Jazz Club, New York City in 1992 and released on the Telarc label.[1] The album, along with To Bird with Love and To Diz with Love, represent the last recordings made by the legendary trumpeter before his death in 1993.

Reception[]

The Allmusic review stated "This album and its companions might have worked better as videos, where one could still bask in Dizzy's live presence and thus experience the atmosphere of this celebration more fully".[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic2/5 stars[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings2.5/4 stars[3]

Track listing[]

All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie except as indicated

  1. "Ornithology" (Benny Harris, Charlie Parker) – 15:31
  2. "Con Alma" – 9:20
  3. "Confirmation" (Parker) – 10:41
  4. "A Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie, Felix Paparelli) – 21:46
  5. "The Diamond Jubilee Blues" – 4:14
  6. "The Theme" (Miles Davis) – 1:26

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ Concord Music Group website Archived August 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine accessed April 22, 2012
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review accessed April 22, 2012
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 555. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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