''Reincarnation of a Love Bird'' is an album by Paul Motian, released on the German JMT label in 1994. It contains performances of bebop jazz standards by Motian with the Electric Bebop Band. The album follows on from the 1992 release ''

Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band ''Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band'' is an album of bebop jazz standards by American drummer Paul Motian originally released on the German JMT label. It was the first release by the Electric Bebop Band, which featured the veteran drumme ...

'', and was rereleased on the

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label in 2005.Winter & Winter catalogue
accessed August 8, 2011 The band features Motian with saxophonists Chris Potter and

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, guitarists

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and Kurt Rosenwinkel, bass guitarist Steve Swallow and percussionist Don Alias.

Reception

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review by Rick Anderson stated: "The element of surprise that charged the proceedings on the debut is missing this time, but this is still a very fine album overall".Anderson, R
AllMusic Review
accessed August 8, 2011

Track listing

# "Split Decision" (Paul Motian) - 5:40 # "Half-Nelson" (

Miles Davis Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of music ...

) - 3:53 # "

Ask Me Now This is a list of compositions by jazz musician Thelonious Monk. 0-9 52nd Street Theme A contrafact based loosely on rhythm changes in C, and was copyrighted by Monk under the title "Nameless" in April 1944. The tune was also called "Bip Bop" b ...

" (

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) - 3:44 # "Reincarnation of a Love Bird" (

Charles Mingus Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz upright bassist, pianist, composer, bandleader, and author. A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered to be one of the greatest jazz musicians and ...

) - 6:32 # "Skippy" (Monk) - 3:40 # "2 Bass Hit" (

Dizzy Gillespie John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge but addi ...

, John Lewis) - 4:10 # Waseenonet" (Wolfgang Muthspiel) - 7:02 # "

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" ( Benny Harris,

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) - 4:31 # " 'Round Midnight" (Monk) - 6:57 # "Be-Bop" (Gillespie) - 4:01 # "Split Decision" (Motian) - 3:39 :*Recorded at RPM Recording Studios in New York City in June 1994

Personnel

* Paul Motian -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

* Chris Potter -

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in E, smaller than the B tenor ...

(left channel) *

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while th ...

(right channel) *

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

(right channel) * Kurt Rosenwinkel - electric guitar (left channel) * Steve Swallow - electric bass * Don Alias -

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

References

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