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{{Infobox album
| name       = Bird Lives!
| type       = Live album
| artist     = [[Ira Sullivan]] and the Chicago Jazz Quintet
| cover      = Bird Lives! (Ira Sullivan album).jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1963
| recorded   = March 12, 1962
| venue      = Birdhouse, Chicago, IL
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Jazz]]
| length     =
| label      = [[Vee-Jay Records|Vee-Jay]]<br />{{small|VJLP 3033}}
| producer   = Joe Segal
| chronology = [[Ira Sullivan]]
| prev_title = [[Blue Stroll]]
| prev_year  = 1959
| next_title = [[Horizons (Ira Sullivan album)|Horizons]]
| next_year  = 1967
}}
'''''Bird Lives!''''' is a live album by multi-instrumentalist [[Ira Sullivan]] which was recorded in Chicago in 1962 and released on the [[Vee-Jay Records|Vee-Jay]] label on LP before being reissued as a double CD with additional material in 1993.<ref>[http://www.bsnpubs.com/veejay/veejayjazz.html Vee-Jay Album Discography, Part 3: Jazz Series (1959-1978)], accessed October 17, 2017</ref><ref>[http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Sullivan/is-disc.htm Ira Sullivan discography], accessed October 17, 2017</ref><ref>[https://www.jazzdisco.org/ira-sullivan/catalog/#vee-jay-vjlp-3033 Ira Sullivan catalog], accessed October 17, 2017</ref>
==Reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic" />
|rev2 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]''
|rev2score  = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=1352}}</ref>
}}
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".<ref name="Allmusic">{{Allmusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id=mw0000903377 |title= Ira Sullivan: ''Bird Lives!'' – Review |accessdate=October 17, 2017}}</ref>
==Track listing==
All compositions by Charlie Parker except where noted
'''''Disc One:'''''
# "Klact-Oveeseds-Tene" – 8:30
# "[[Fly Me to the Moon|In Other Words]]" ([[Bart Howard]]) – 6:13
# "Shaw 'Nuff" (([[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]], [[Gil Fuller]], [[Dizzy Gillespie]]) – 2:25
# "Perhaps" – 6:04
# "[[Love Letters (song)|Love Letters]]" ([[Victor Young]], [[Edward Heyman]]) – 5:08
# "Mohawk" – 8:31
# "Si Si" – 15:16 <small>Additional track on CD reissue</small>
# "Be-Bop/Humpty Dumpty" ([[Dizzy Gillespie]]/[[Ornette Coleman]]) – 13:24 <small>Additional track on CD reissue</small>
'''''Disc Two:'''''
# "Milestones" ([[John Lewis (pianist)|John Lewis]]) – 8:14 <small>Additional track on CD reissue</small>
# "Sketches" (Lewis) – 8:14 <small>Additional track on CD reissue</small>
# "Omicron" ([[Donald Byrd]]) – 10:33 <small>Additional track on CD reissue</small>
# "[[On the Alamo]]" ([[Isham Jones]], [[Gus Kahn]]) – 9:58 <small>Additional track on CD reissue</small>
# "[[Inchworm (song)|Inchworm]]" ([[Frank Loesser]]) – 8:53 <small>Additional track on CD reissue</small>
# "Back Home Blues" – 7:33 <small>Additional track on CD reissue</small>
# "[[For You, For Me, For Evermore]]" ([[George Gershwin]], [[Ira Gershwin]]) – 5:19 <small>Additional track on CD reissue</small>
==Personnel==
*[[Ira Sullivan]] – [[trumpet]], [[flugelhorn]]
*Nicky Hill – [[tenor saxophone]]
*[[Jodie Christian]] – [[piano]]
*Don Garrett – [[double bass|bass]]
*Dorell Anderson or Wilbur Campbell – [[drum kit|drums]]
==References==
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{{Ira Sullivan}}
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[[Category:Vee-Jay Records live albums]]
[[Category:Ira Sullivan live albums]]
[[Category:1963 live albums]]
[[Category:Charlie Parker tribute albums]]