Bird Lives! (Joe Albany album)

(also released as Now's the Time) is an album by pianist Joe Albany, recorded in 1979 and released on the Interplay label.

[1][2] AllMusic's Scott Yanow said: "Joe Albany's next-to-last recording features the veteran bop pianist performing seven Charlie Parker compositions, his own 'Charlie Parker Blues' and the standard They Can't Take That Away From Me' in a superb trio ...

This was the perfect setting for Albany and he comes up with fresh ideas ... easily recommended to bop lovers".

[3] On All About Jazz, C. Michael Bailey stated: "Albany, who had a reputation for being hard to corral musically in the confines of a trio, plays in very good form in the setting".

[4] The Penguin Guide to Jazz described it as "one of the best sets Albany managed to record".