Reeds & Deeds | ||||
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Released | June 1963 | |||
Recorded | February 25 & 26, 1963 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Mercury | |||
Roland Kirk chronology | ||||
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Reeds & Deeds is a studio album by the jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk. It was released through Mercury Records in June 1963. [1] It includes performances by Kirk with Virgil Jones, Charles Greenlee, Harold Mabern, Abdullah Rafik, Walter Perkins, Tom McIntosh and Richard Davis, with arrangements by Benny Golson. [2]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
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