Lazy Bird is an album by guitarist Doug Raney recorded in 1984 and released on the Danish label, SteepleChase.[1][2]

Lazy Bird
Studio album by
Doug Raney Quintet
Released1984
RecordedNovember 1, 1984
StudioSweet Silence, Copenhagen, Denmark
GenreJazz
Length52:54
LabelSteepleChase
SCS 1200
ProducerNils Winther
Doug Raney chronology
Blue and White
(1983)
Lazy Bird
(1984)
Guitar Guitar Guitar
(1985)

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings    [4]

Scott Yanow of AllMusic called it "Excellent modern mainstream straight-ahead jazz".[3]

Track listing edit

All compositions by Doug Raney except where noted.

  1. "Walking the Duck" [take 3] – 3:42 Bonus track on CD reissue
  2. "Reggie of Chester" (Benny Golson) – 7:54
  3. "Feo's Waltz" – 6:51
  4. "Lazy Bird" (John Coltrane) – 9:06
  5. "Beatrice" (Sam Rivers) – 7:48
  6. "Theme for Ernie" (Fred Lacey) – 14:04
  7. "Walking the Duck" – 2:43

Personnel edit

References edit

  1. ^ SteepleChase Records discography, accessed March 23, 2017
  2. ^ SteepleChase Productions ApS, accessed March 23, 2017
  3. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Doug Raney: Lazy Bird – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1191. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.