Birdhouse (album)
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| Studio album by Fred Anderson | ||||
| Released | 1996 | |||
| Recorded | February 20, 1995 (track 4 April 7, 1994) |
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| Studio | Sparrow Sound Design, Chicago | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 62:59 | |||
| Label | Okka Disk | |||
| Producer | Fred Anderson , Bruno Johnson | |||
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| The Penguin Guide to Jazz | |
Birdhouse is an album by American jazz saxophonist Fred Anderson released in 1996 on Okka Disk.
The title refers to Anderson's Chicago club that closed in 1978. Three pieces are played by a quartet with pianist Jim Baker and long-time collaborators bassist Harrison Bankhead and drummer Hamid Drake, while the remaining "Waiting for M.C." is a duo Anderson-Drake performed while the tapes were rolling as they awaited pianist Marilyn Crispell for the studio rehearsal the day before the live recording Destiny. "Like Sonny" is dedicated to saxophonist Sonny Stitt.
In her review for AllMusic, Joslyn Layne states "Birdhouse finds tenor sax great Fred Anderson leading his quartet through four originals that cover a spectrum of moods."
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