Left & Right (album)

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Left & Right
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Studio album by
Roland Kirk
Released1969 (1969)
RecordedJune 17–18 1968
Genre Jazz
Label Atlantic
Producer Joel Dorn
Roland Kirk chronology
The Inflated Tear
(1967)		Left & Right
(1969)		 Volunteered Slavery
(1968)
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Left & Right is an album by the jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk, released on the Atlantic label in 1969. [3] [4] It contains performances by Kirk with Jim Buffington, Julius Watkins, Frank Wess, Rahn Burton, Vernon Martin and Roy Haynes, with Warren Smith, Richard Williams, Dick Griffin, Benny Powell, Pepper Adams, Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Hopps, Daniel Jones and Gerald "Sonny" Brown featuring on an extended track with orchestration by Gil Fuller. [5]

Contents

Critical reception

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek states: "The title of this album, Left and Right, no doubt refers to the sides of Rahsaan Roland Kirk's brain, which were both heavily taxed in the composing, arranging, conducting, and playing of this recording... This is an extreme for Rahsaan — extremely brilliant and thoroughly accessible". [1]

Track listing

All compositions by Roland Kirk except as indicated.
  1. "Black Mystery Has Been Revealed" – 1:17
  2. "Expansions: Kirkquest/Kingus Mingus/Celestialness/A Dream of Beauty Reincarnated/Frisco Vibrations/Classical Jazzical/El Kirk" – 19:37
  3. "Lady's Blues" – 3:46
  4. "IX Love" (Charles Mingus) – 3:40
  5. "Hot Cha" (Willie Woods) – 3:23
  6. "Quintessence" (Quincy Jones) – 4:11
  7. "I Waited for You" (Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie) – 2:54
  8. "A Flower is a Lovesome Thing" (Billy Strayhorn) – 3:55
  • Recorded in NYC on June 17 & 18, 1968

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 AllMusic Review
  2. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 829. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. ↑ Kun, Josh (2005). Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America. University of California Press. p. 280. ISBN   9780520225107.
  4. ↑ Goldmark, Daniel (2012). David Ake; Charles Hiroshi Garrett; Daniel Goldmark (eds.). Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries. University of California Press. p. 154. ISBN   9780520271036.
  5. ↑ Rahsaan Roland Kirk discography accessed 12 August 2009
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