Birdland

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Birdland may refer to:

In jazz:

• Birdland (jazz club), a famous jazz club in New York City, originally located on 52nd Street, now at 315 W. 44th St. The term "Birdland" comes from "Bird", the nickname of great jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker.
• Birdland (Vienna), a jazz club in Vienna, founded by Joe Zawinul
• "Birdland", an instrumental composed by Joe Zawinul in 1977 for his band Weather Report on the album Heavy Weather.
• "Birdland", a song by Patti Smith from her 1975 album Horses, inspired in part by rhythm and blues pianist Huey Smith and Peter Reich, son of Wilhelm Reich.
• "Birdland", a vocalese cover of the Zawinul composition by Jon Hendricks and The Manhattan Transfer, from the 1985 album Vocalese.

Birdland may also refer to:

• Birdland (band), indie band from England in the late 1980s
• Birdland (theme park), an ornithological theme park at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England
• Birdland (comic), an erotic comic book by Gilbert Hernandez published by Eros Comix
• Birdland (album), a 2003 recording under The Yardbirds name.
• Birdland, a novel by Tracy Mack, published in 2003, about teenagers in NY City
• Birdland (TV drama), a short-lived TV drama series about a psychiatrist who worked at a hospital in Oakland, California
• Birdland, the casual name for a neighbourhood in Halifax, Nova Scotia located to the west of Clayton Park
• Birdland, a fictional comic that appears in the novel Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite