title: Bird in a Silver Cage
text: # Bird in a Silver Cage
  
  Bird in a Silver Cage is an album by flautist Herbie Mann recorded in 1976 and released on the Atlantic Records label.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  
  AllMusic site awarded the album 2 stars and its review by Jim Newsome states: "Another example of Herbie Mann's quest for new playing environments leading him to follow another trend, in this case the disco music coming out of Germany in the mid-to-late seventies".
  
  ## Track listing
  
  * "Bird in a Silver Cage" (Sylvester Levay) – 12:51
  * "Aria" (Dario Baldan Bembo, Sergio Bardotti) – 4:51
  * "Fly, Robin, Fly" (Levay, Stephan Prager) – 1:06
  * "Birdwalk" (Levay, Herbie Mann) – 7:34
  * "Years of Love" (Levay) – 3:32
  * "The Piper" (Mann) – 6:26
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Herbie Mann – flute
  * Sylvester Levay – keyboards, arranger, conductor
  * Nick Woodland – guitar
  * Gary Unwin – bass
  * Martin Harrison – drums
  * Elmer Louis, Joseph Spector – percussion
  * Jerry Rix – backing vocals
  * Penny McLean and the Munich Studio Choir – vocals (track 2)
  * Unidentified string section directed by Fritz Sonneleitner
  