Rebirth (Billy Childs album)

Rebirth
Studio album by Billy Childs
Released	March 24, 2017 (2017-03-24)
Recorded	Avatar Studios
Genre	Jazz
Length	56:26
Label	Mack Avenue
Producer	Billy Childs, Al Pryor Gretchen Valade (exec. producer) Myles Weinstein (exec. producer)
Billy Childs chronology
Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro (2014) Rebirth (2017)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
The Guardian	[1]
All About Jazz	[2]

Rebirth is a studio album by Billy Childs, released on March 24, 2017. The title references the return to his hard-bop playing of the 1970s.^[2][3][4]

The album earned Childs his fifth Grammy Award – his first for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.^[5]

Track listing[]

1. "Backwards Bop" (Billy Childs) – 6:38
2. "Rebirth" (Childs, Claudia Acuña) – 7:38
3. "Stay" (Childs) – 5:59
4. "Dance of Shiva" (Childs) – 6:49
5. "Tightrope" (Childs) – 6:37
6. "The Starry Night" (Childs) – 8:10
7. "The Windmills of Your Mind" (Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman) – 7:10
8. "Peace" (Horace Silver) – 7:29

Source:^[6]

Personnel[]

• Billy Childs – piano, producer
• Steve Wilson – alto and soprano saxophone
• Hans Glawischnig – acoustic bass
• Eric Harland – drums
• Claudia Acuña – vocals (on "Rebirth")
• Alicia Olatuja – vocals (on "Stay")
• Ido Meshulam – trombone (on "Rebirth")
• Rogerio Boccato – percussion (on "Rebirth")
• Gretchen Valade, Myles Weinstein – executive producers
• Rich Breen – recording, mixing and mastering engineer
• Nate Odden – assistant engineer

Source:^[6]

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