Sadao Watanabe - Bird of Paradise

Bird of Paradise

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Tonight's post is another track by Japanese altoist Sadao Watanabe. It's the title track of the album Bird of Paradise, which was clearly made as an homage to Charlie Parker. All of the songs on the album were either composed by Parker or strongly associated with him. This song is a contrafact of the song "All The Things You Are", which Parker said was his favorite ballad.

Watanabe is accompanied by "The Great Jazz Trio", a group of reknowned American jazz musicians. They recorded several albums together in 1976, including this one.

Personnel:

  • Sadao Watanabe - alto sax
  • Hank Jones - piano
  • Ron Carter - bass
  • Tony Williams - drums