Search - Rahsaan Roland Kirk :: Verve Jazz Masters 27

Fans want full albums; beginners start here.

Sambson | North Carolina | 04/04/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Rahsaan Roland Kirk's volume in Verve's Jazz Masters series is a good sampler of his music taken from many of his best LPs for Mercury in the `60s. Fans will want the full albums, but beginners could start here. Only track #6 would be of particular interest to hardcore collectors.

A five star collection, that rates 4 stars next to any of these full albums.



1,9,12,14: WE FREE KINGS Aug 17, 1961

Roland Kirk, Hank Jones, Wendell Marshall, Art David, Richard Wyands, Charli Persip



2: NOW PLEASE DON'T YOU CRY, BEAUTIFUL EDITH May 2, 1967

Roland Kirk, Lonnie Liston Smith, Ronnie Boykins, Grady Tate



3: REEDS AND DEEDS February 26, 1963

Roland Kirk, Virgil Jones, Tom McIntosh, Harold Mabern, Richard Davis, Walter Perkins



4,8,16: GIFTS AND MESSAGES July 22, 1964

Roland Kirk, Horace Parlan, Michael Fleming, Steve Ellington



5: RIP RIG & PANIC January 13, 1965

Roland Kirk, Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Elvin Jones



6: 45 issue ONLY May 26, 1964

Roland Kirk, Bobby Bryant, Red Callendar, Michael Fleming



7: THE ROLAND KIRK QUARTET MEETS BENNY GOLSON June 11, 1963

Roland Kirk, Virgil Jones, Tom McIntosh, Richard Davis



10: DOMINO September 6, 1962

Roland Kirk, Andrew Hill, Vernon Martin, Henry Duncan



11: DOMINO April 17-18, 1962

Roland Kirk, Wynton Kelly, Vernon Martin, Roy Haynes



15: KIRK'S WORK

same as DOMINO





Writer's credits:



Berkshire Blues (R.E. Weston)

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (M.Sherwin/E.Mashwitz)

Blues For Alice (C.Parker)

Black Diamond (M.R.Sealey-P.Sein)

Let's Call This (T.Monk)"