Bird Lives! Snuff and a more stripped down

and a more stripped down version hinging around skeletal drums shades away from The Bug

The atmospheric yet concise Shadows pulls the classic WIRE trick of placing a dark and cruel lyric amongst a musical setting of tender beauty

contribute to the band's muscular sound

from around 1930 on it's difficult to note more than a handful of female blues singers who became prominent

His music is sincere

Bird Lives! Snuff and a more stripped downBird Lives! was Red Rodney's first jazz performance as a leader in 14 years. After spending time in Las Vegas playing in show bands, he made a gradual comeback, but mostly stuck to bebop. This LP, last released in 1989, features Rodney, Charles McPherson, Barry Harris, Sam Jones, and Roy Brooks paying tribute to Charlie Parker with energetic renditions of six classic bop songs. Overall, the performance has its highlights.