Nightbird (Eva Cassidy album)

Nightbird
Live album by
ReleasedNovember 13, 2015
RecordedJanuary 3, 1996
GenreBlues, jazz, folk
Length2:19:54
LabelBlix Street
ProducerEva Cassidy
Chris Biondo
Eva Cassidy chronology
The Best of Eva Cassidy
(2012)
Nightbird
(2015)
Acoustic
(2017)

Nightbird is a 2-CD plus 1-DVD live album by American singer Eva Cassidy, released posthumously in November 2015, nineteen years after her death. The album was recorded at the Blues Alley club in Washington, D.C. in January 1996. Some of the tracks had previously been released on the 1996 album, Live at Blues Alley. The recordings have been remixed and remastered from the original tapes. Of the 31 songs, 12 are previously unreleased, including the title track "Nightbird" (written by Doug MacLeod), as well as the jazz standards "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" and "Fever". Of the 12 unreleased tracks, eight are previously unheard songs. The DVD which accompanies the 2 audio CDs contains 12 songs from the same set, of which 9 were previously included on the 2004 DVD release Eva Cassidy Sings and the remaining 3 are released for the first time.