Andrew Bird announces new Jazz Standards Trio album, shares two tracks and two live videos
Sunday Morning Sale It will be released on May 24 via Loma Vista. Listen to 'I Fall In Love Too Easily' and 'I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face' now
April 11, 2024
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Andrew Bird has announced a new album with the Andrew Bird Trio (also featuring Ted Poor on drums and Alan Hampton on bass), an album of jazz arrangements entitled Sunday Morning Sale. He also shared his first two singles, “I Fall In Love Too Easily” and “I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face,” as well as live in studio performance videos for each song. Sunday Morning Sale is due for release on May 24th via Loma Vista. Check out the singles and videos below, followed by the tracklist and album art, as well as Bird's upcoming tour dates.
The album also features guitar by Jeff Parker and piano by Larry Goldings. Featuring new versions of jazz standards by Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Lerner & Loewe, Rodgers & Hart and more. “I Fall In Love Too Easily” was written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne and “I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face” was written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. A bird is produced Sunday Morning Salewhich was recorded entirely live at the legendary Valentine Studios in Southern California (Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, The Beach Boys).
Bird said of the album in a press release: “When I was in my 20s, I was living in an old apartment hotel in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago. It was cheap and inhabited mostly by retired Jesuit priests and nuns from nearby Loyola University. The gym had old Schwinn 10-speed bikes on cinder blocks for low-rent pelotons, an old swimming pool where opera was performed, and the steam room was a club for the local Russian mob. Most Saturday nights I would stay up listening to a radio show called “Blues Before Sunrise” on WBEZ from 12 to 4 am. DJ Steve Cushing played old rare 78rpm blues, jazz and gospel records. Then I would sleep for a few hours and wake up to the Dick Buckley show, also on WBEZ, with what he called “Golden Age” jazz from the 30s and 40s. My love of a certain era of jazz up until the mid-20th century has been constant through many transformations in my own work, most of which is not jazz at all. Once I had some distance between me and this time I was under her spell, I wanted to sink into her again.”
Bird's last album was 2023 External problemswhich accompanied the 2022 album, Internal problems.
Check out our interview with Andrew Bird at My Best Work.
Sunday Morning Attire Track List:
1. I didn't know what time it was
2. Caravan
3. I fall in love too easily
4. It would be very nice to come home
5. My Ideal
6. Django
7. I Cover The Waterfront
8. Softly, As A Morning Sunrise
9. I am used to her face
10. Ballon de Peut-etre
Andrew Bird tour Dates: May 29 – Chicago, IL – Green Mill !
May 30 – Milwaukee, WI – The Pabst Theater %
May 31 – Chicago, IL – Chicago Humanities festival
June 2 – Denver, CO – Outdoor festival
June 3 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room !
June 8 – Healdsburg, CA – BloodRoot's The Ramble
July 5 – Jacksonville, OR – Britt Fest Pavilion*
July 6 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater*
July 7 – Boise, ID – Idaho Botanical Garden*
July 8 – Missoula, MT – Big Sky Brewing Co*
July 10 – Sandy, UT – Sandy Amphitheater*
July 12 – Omaha, NE – Astro Amphitheater*
July 13 – Minneapolis, MN – Surly Brewing Co*
July 14 – Bayfield, WI – Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua*
July 15 – Interlochen, MI – Kresge Auditorium*
July 17 – Charlottesville, VA – Ting Pavilion #
July 18 – Asheville, NC – Rabbit Rabbit #
July 19 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy #
July 20 – North Charleston, SC – Firefly Distillery #
August 8 – Indianapolis, IN – Rock The Ruins at Holiday Park^
August 9 – Grand Rapids, MI – Meijer Gardens^
August 10 – Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre^
August 12 – Montreal, QC – L'Olympia^
August 13 – Schenectady, NY – Frog Alley Brewing Summerstage^
August 15 – Deerfield, MA – Summerstage at Tree House Brewing Co^
August 16 – New York, NY – Pier 17^
August 17 – Westport, CT – Levitt Pavilion^
August 18 – Kennett Square, PA – Longwood Gardens Open Air Theatre^
August 20 – Raleigh, NC – NC Museum of Art^
August 21 – Vienna, VA – Wolf Trap at the Filene Center^
! Andrew Bird Trio
% with Elizabeth Moen
*with Nickel Creek and Haley Heynderickx
# with Nickel Creek and Mike Viola
^with Amadou & Mariam
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