Yardbird Suite (Herbie Mann album)

Yardbird Suite is an album by American jazz flautist Herbie Mann featuring tracks recorded in 1957 for the Savoy label.[1]

Yardbird Suite
Studio album by
Released1957
RecordedMay 14, 1957
StudioVan Gelder, Hackensack
GenreJazz
Length34:13
LabelSavoy
MG 12108
ProducerOzzie Cadena
Herbie Mann chronology
Mann Alone
(1957)
Yardbird Suite
(1957)
Great Ideas of Western Mann
(1957)

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic     [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings    [3]

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "this is a solid document of all of the participants' burgeoning skills, and increasing cache as modern jazz masters".[2]

Track listing edit

  1. "Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker) - 5:52
  2. "Here's That Mann" (Eddie Costa) - 4:22
  3. "One for Tubby" (Joe Puma) - 6:04
  4. "Squire's Parlor" (Phil Woods) - 4:48
  5. "Who Knew?" (Puma) - 7:08
  6. "Opicana" (Puma) - 5:24

Personnel edit

References edit

  1. ^ Savoy Records Catalog: 12100 series accessed July 16, 2015
  2. ^ a b Nastos, Michael G.. Yardbird Suite – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 933. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.