Bird Lives! (Ira Sullivan album)

Bird Lives! is a live album by multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan which was recorded in Chicago in 1962 and released on the Vee-Jay label on LP before being reissued as a double CD with additional material in 1993.

Reception
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated "Ira Sullivan's quintet played at a Charlie Parker Memorial concert in Chicago on Mar. 12, 1962 and the results (six selections) were originally released on a single LP. The release of this double CD greatly expanded the program. ... Overall, a fine bop set".

Track listing
All compositions by Charlie Parker except where noted

Disc One:


 * 1) "Klact-Oveeseds-Tene" – 8:30
 * 2) "In Other Words" (Bart Howard) – 6:13
 * 3) "Shaw 'Nuff" ((Ray Brown, Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie) – 2:25
 * 4) "Perhaps" – 6:04
 * 5) "Love Letters" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 5:08
 * 6) "Mohawk" – 8:31
 * 7) "Si Si" – 15:16 Additional track on CD reissue
 * 8) "Be-Bop/Humpty Dumpty" (Dizzy Gillespie/Ornette Coleman) – 13:24 Additional track on CD reissue

Disc Two:
 * 1) "Milestones" (John Lewis) – 8:14 Additional track on CD reissue
 * 2) "Sketches" (Lewis) – 8:14 Additional track on CD reissue
 * 3) "Omicron" (Donald Byrd) – 10:33 Additional track on CD reissue
 * 4) "On the Alamo" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 9:58 Additional track on CD reissue
 * 5) "Inchworm" (Frank Loesser) – 8:53 Additional track on CD reissue
 * 6) "Back Home Blues" – 7:33 Additional track on CD reissue
 * 7) "For You, For Me, For Evermore" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 5:19 Additional track on CD reissue

Personnel

 * Ira Sullivan – trumpet, flugelhorn
 * Nicky Hill – tenor saxophone
 * Jodie Christian – piano
 * Don Garrett – bass
 * Dorell Anderson or Wilbur Campbell – drums