Sunset and the Mockingbird (subtitled The Birthday Concert) is a live album by pianist Tommy Flanagan, recorded at the Village Vanguard in 1997 on his 67th birthday and released on the Blue Note label.Tommy Flanagan Catalog accessed August 8, 2016Blue Note Records album entry, accessed August 8, 2016
Reception
AllMusic's Ken Dryden called the album a "memorable set". In JazzTimes, Bill Bennett wrote: "This is one of those recordings that defines the art of the piano trio in jazz. Tommy Flanagan's musical wisdom shines through at every juncture of these performances".Bennett, B. JazzTimes Review, April 1999 On All About Jazz, Jack Bowers said "As he nears 70, Tommy Flanagan, like fine wine, becomes more pleasurable and venerated with each passing day. He plays with warmth, vigor, soul, an unerring sense of rhythm and dynamics, and any other ingredient one could wish for in a Jazz pianist".Bowers, J. All About Jazz Review, October 1, 1998
Track listing "Birdsong" (Thad Jones) – 9:16 "With Malice Toward None" (Tom McIntosh) – 10:26 "Let's" (Jones) – 7:19 "I Waited for You" (Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie) – 5:27 "Tin Tin Deo" (Fuller, Chano Pozo) – 14:34 "Sunset and the Mockingbird" (Duke Ellington) – 5:52 "The Balanced Scales/The Cupbearers" (Mcintosh) – 12:42 "Good Night My Love" (Mack Gordon, Harry Revel) – 4:08
Personnel Tommy Flanagan – piano Peter Washington – bass Lewis Nash – drums
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