Birds and Blades: Studio / Live is a two-CD album by double bassist Barry Guy and saxophonist Evan Parker.

[1][2][3][4] In an interview, Parker stated that he felt that he and Guy were "turning sunlight into music," and reflected: "Barry knows that the sun is always there, even when it's cloudy.

"[5] In a review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek wrote: "This is an exhilarating pair that, together, practices a kind of poetry of the infinite in their explorations.

"[1] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz stated: "This is a remarkable encounter, new ground, a new intensity of expression from a pair of musicians who after 30 years might be thought to have exhausted each other's creative hydrogen entirely.

"[6] Writing for All About Jazz, Andrey Henkin called the album "a compelling document of two giants of their respective instruments," and commented: "The opportunity to hear improvised music in these two settings, recorded one day apart to maintain some continuity of theme, is unique and lends the recording an air of journal entries or correspondence reporting...