Bird Songs - Joe Lovano Us Five
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  • Summary: The Grammy-award winning saxophonist's latest album is a collection of Charlie "Bird" Parker songs recorded with Lovano's band, the Us Five.

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  1. The Guardian
    Mar 17, 2011
    100
    Lovano's total authority over the materials and his instruments glows through every track.
  2. Dusted Magazine
    Feb 15, 2011
    80
    Bird Songs is unpretentious and as good a "mainstream" jazz record as you're likely to hear these days.
  3. Mojo
    Apr 6, 2011
    80
    The stated modus operandi--everybody is leading and following--results in some fascinating new angles and delicious surprises on familiar material. [Apr 2011, p.107]
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  4. BBC Music
    Mar 7, 2011
    80
    The true tests of an album of compositions such as this are, firstly, that it produces original, stimulating music and, secondly, that it makes one return to the original versions to listen to them anew. On both counts, Bird Songs succeeds admirably.

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