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BIRDLAND
Specialty Definition: Birdland
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In jazz,
Birdland may refer to a few different things:
- A famous jazz club in New York City located at 315 W. 44th St.
- A song composed by Joe Zawinul in 1977 for his band Weather Report on the album Heavy Weather
The term
birdland comes from
Bird the nickname of great jazz saxaphonist Charlie Parker.
External Link
Birdland jazz club official website
Source: the above text is adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Birdland."
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