Andrew Bird Trio announces the release of Sunday Morning Put-On, The artist’s new LP will arrive on May 24 on Loma Vista Recordings. The album Features Bird’s takes on songs by Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Lerner & Loewe, Rodgers & Hart and more, the record finds him re-immersed in a lifelong love of mid-century, small group jazz and the Great American Songbook. Accompanied by a masterful rhythm section – Ted Poor on drums, Alan Hampton on bass – Sunday Morning Put-On marks the culmination of a passion that has been building within him for nearly 30 years. Ahead of the album’s release, Bird has shared “I Fall In Love Too Easily” (Sammy Cahn-Jule Styne) and “I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face (Alan Jay Lerner-Frederick Loewe)”.

“When I was in my 20s, I lived in an old apartment-hotel in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago. It was cheap and inhabited mostly by retired Jesuit priests and nuns from nearby Loyola University. The gym had old Schwinn 10-speed bicycles up on cinder blocks for low-rent pelotons, an old swimming pool where they played opera, and the steam room was a clubhouse for the local Russian mob. Most Saturday nights I’d stay up listening to a radio show called Blues Before Sunrise on WBEZ from 12-4am. The DJ, Steve Cushing, played old rare 78rpm records of blues, jazz and gospel. Then I’d sleep for a few hours and wake to Dick Buckley’s show, also on WBEZ, featuring what he called Golden Era jazz from the 30s and 40s. My love for a certain era of jazz up through the mid-20th Century has been constant through many transmutations in my own work, the bulk of which is not jazz at all. Once I had some distance between myself and this time when I was under its spell, I wanted to immerse myself in it again,” says Andrew Bird.

Produced by Andrew Bird and recorded completely live in southern California’s legendary Valentine Studios (Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Beach Boys), Sunday Morning Put-On also features guitar from Jeff Parker and piano from Larry Goldings. But it is Andrew Bird’s voice and violin that reach new levels of depth, as he pushes himself further than ever as an improviser – particularly on the closing number and sole original, Ballon de Peut-etre. Across the album, through the interplay of his bow, strings, and the breaths of air flowing through his vocal cords, he mimics the phrasing and tone of a reed instrument. Playing his violin like a horn and singing much more than he expected, he hones a virtuosity that was always present on his previous records, but rises prominently to the forefront with added layers of prowess and longing.

The Andrew Bird Trio will celebrate the release of Sunday Morning Put-On with special performances at Chicago’s Green Mill jazz club on May 29 – a hallowed stage that Bird has frequently graced throughout his past decades in the city – as well as Los Angeles’ Lodge Room on June 3. Following those shows, Andrew Bird will hit the road for a summer tour of more than 25 dates throughout the US. In addition to a run of amphitheaters co-headlined with Nickel Creek, Bird will play NYC’s Pier 17 and more with special guest Amadou & Mariam.

Andrew Birds
Sunday Morning Put-On
Loma Vista

I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
Caravan
I Fall In Love Too Easily
You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To
My Ideal
Django
I Cover The Waterfront
Softly, As A Morning Sunrise
I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face
Ballon de Peut-etre

Andrew Bird 2024 Tour Dates

May 29 – Chicago, IL – Green Mill
May 30 – Milwaukee, WI – The Pabst Theater
June 2 – Denver, CO – Outside Festival
June 3 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room
June 8 – Healdsburg, CA – BloodRoot’s The Ramble
July 5 – Jacksonville, OR – Britt Fest Pavilion*
July 6 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater*
July 7 – Boise, ID – Idaho Botanical Garden*
July 8 – Missoula, MT – Big Sky Brewing Co*
July 10 – Sandy, UT – Sandy Amphitheater*
July 12 – Omaha, NE – Astro Amphitheater*
July 13 – Minneapolis, MN – Surly Brewing Co*
July 14 – Bayfield, WI – Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua*
July 15 – Interlochen, MI – Kresge Auditorium*
July 17 – Charlottesville, VA – Ting Pavilion*
July 18 – Asheville, NC – Rabbit Rabbit*
July 19 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy*
July 20 – North Charleston, SC – Firefly Distillery*
August 8 – Indianapolis, IN – Rock The Ruins at Holiday Park^
August 9 – Grand Rapids, MI – Meijer Gardens
August 10 – Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre^
August 12 – Montreal, QC – L’Olympia^
August 13 – Schenectady, NY – Frog Alley Brewing Summerstage^
August 15 – Deerfield, MA – Summerstage at Tree House Brewing Co^
August 16 – New York, NY – Pier 17^
August 17 – Westport, CT – Levitt Pavilion^
August 18 – Kennett Square, PA – Longwood Gardens Open Air Theatre^
August 20 – Raleigh, NC – NC Museum of Art^
August 21 – Vienna, VA – Wolf Traps at Filene Center^

*w/ Nickel Creek
^w/ Amadou & Mariam

Pre-order Sunday Morning Put-On HERE