Bird Songs: The Final Recordings

Bird Songs: The Final Recordings
Live album by Dizzy Gillespie
Released 1992
Recorded January 23–25, 1992
Blue Note Jazz Club, Greenwich Village, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 62:58
Label Telarc
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 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
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]

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 accessed April 22, 2012
  2. 2.0 2.1 Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review accessed April 22, 2012