Bird Lives!, (also released as Now's the Time), is an album by pianist Joe Albany recorded in 1979 and released on the Interplay label.[1][2]

Bird Lives!
Studio album by Joe Albany
Released	1979
Recorded	January 4, 1979
Studio	RPM Sound Studio, NYC
Genre	Jazz
Length	44:26
Label	Interplay IP-7723
Producer	Toshiya Taenaka
Joe Albany chronology
Live in Paris (1977) Bird Lives! (1979) Portrait of an Artist (1982)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]
All About Jazz	[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[5]

Allmusic's Scott Yanow said: "Joe Albany's next-to-last recording features the veteran bop pianist performing seven Charlie Parker compositions, his own "Charlie Parker Blues" and the standard "They Can't Take That Away From Me" in a superb trio ... This was the perfect setting for Albany and he comes up with fresh ideas ... easily recommended to bop lovers".[3] On All About Jazz, C. Michael Bailey stated: "Albany, who had a reputation for being hard to corral musically in the confines of a trio, plays in very good form in the setting".[4] The Penguin Guide to Jazz described it as "One of the best sets Albany managed to record".[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Charlie Parker except where noted.

1. "Now's the Time" – 4:15
2. "Yardbird Suite" – 4:28
3. "Bluebird" – 4:03
4. "Charlie Parker Blues" (Joe Albany, Art Davis, Roy Haynes) – 6:06
5. "Little Suede Shoes" – 4:39
6. "Billie's Bounce" – 4:09
7. "Confirmation" – 5:19
8. "Barbados" – 5:02
9. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin ) – 6:25

Personnel

• Joe Albany – piano
• Art Davis – bass
• Roy Haynes – drums

References