Bird in a Silver Cage is an album by flautist Herbie Mann recorded in 1976 and released on the Atlantic Records label.Atlantic Records Discography: 1976 accessed 31 August 2015
Reception
AllMusic site awarded the album 2 stars and its review by Jim Newsome states: "Another example of Herbie Mann's quest for new playing environments leading him to follow another trend, in this case the disco music coming out of Germany in the mid-to-late seventies".
Track listing "Bird in a Silver Cage" (Sylvester Levay) – 12:51 "Aria" (Dario Baldan Bembo, Sergio Bardotti) – 4:51 "Fly, Robin, Fly" (Levay, Stephan Prager) – 1:06 "Birdwalk" (Levay, Herbie Mann) – 7:34 "Years of Love" (Levay) – 3:32 "The Piper" (Mann) – 6:26
Personnel Herbie Mann – flute Sylvester Levay – keyboards, arranger, conductor Nick Woodland – guitar Gary Unwin – bass Martin Harrison – drums Elmer Louis, Joseph Spector – percussion Jerry Rix – backing vocals Penny McLean and the Munich Studio Choir – vocals (track 2) Unidentified string section directed by Fritz Sonneleitner
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