Kirk's Work

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Kirk's Work
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Studio album by
Released1961
RecordedJuly 11, 1961
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length33:02
Label Prestige
Producer Esmond Edwards (supervision)
Roland Kirk chronology
Introducing Roland Kirk
(1960)
Kirk's Work
(1961)
We Free Kings
(1962)

Kirk's Work (also reissued as Funk Underneath) is an album by Roland Kirk, with Jack McDuff. Prestige Records released the album in 1961, with Original Jazz Classics [1] and Concord Music Group issuing subsequent re-releases.

Contents

Rudy Van Gelder engineered the recording on July 11, 1961 at Van Gelder Studio (in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey), while Esmond Edwards supervised the session. Van Gelder remastered the recording for the Concord 2007 re-release.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg(Star full.svg) [1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings describes Kirk's Work as "a largely forgotten Kirk album, but one which generally deserves the classic reissue billing." [1] Ron Wynn has described the album as "a fine reissue of Kirk in a soul-jazz and mainstream vein." [4] AllMusic notes a "swinging R&B vibe pervasive throughout the album," judging that "while certainly not the best in his catalog, it is a touchstone album that captures the early soulful Rahsaan Roland Kirk." [5]

Track listing

All music is composed by Roland Kirk, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Three for Dizzy" 5:11
2."Makin' Whoopee" DonaldsonKahn 5:07
3."Funk Underneath" 6:15
4."Kirk's Work" 3:54
5."Doin' the Sixty-Eight" 4:20
6."Too Late Now" LernerLane 3:52
7."Skater's Waltz" Charles Emile Waldteufel (arr. Kirk)4:23

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 3 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 827. ISBN   978-0-14-103401-0.
  2. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 119. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  4. Wynn, Ron (1994), Ron Wynn (ed.), All Music Guide to Jazz , M. Erlewine, V. Bogdanov, San Francisco: Miller Freeman, p.  404, ISBN   0-87930-308-5
  5. Planer, Lindsay. Kirk's Work at AllMusic . Retrieved February 11, 2011.