Reeds & Deeds

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Reeds & Deeds
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Studio album by
Roland Kirk
ReleasedJune 1963 (1963-06)
RecordedFebruary 25 & 26, 1963
Genre Jazz
Label Mercury
Roland Kirk chronology
Domino
(1962)		Reeds & Deeds
(1963)		 The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra
(1963)

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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Track listing

All compositions by Roland Kirk except as indicated.
  1. "Land of Peace" (Leonard Feather) - 5:52
  2. "Lonesome August Child" - 4:33
  3. "Limbo Boat" - 3:00
  4. "Hay Ro" - 3:02
  5. "Waltz of the Friends" - 4:40
  6. "This Is Always" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) - 4:17
  7. "Reeds and Deeds" - 5:18
  8. "Song of the Countrymen" - 6:54
  • Recorded in New York on February 25 (tracks 1–5) and February 26 (tracks 6–8), 1963

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Ostrow, Marty; Howard, Ira, eds. (June 15, 1963). "Mercury's 20 New LPs Keyed to Summer Listening" (PDF). Cash Box . New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. p. 7.
  2. ↑ Rahsaan Roland Kirk discography accessed 8 August 2009
  3. ↑ AllMusic Review
  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. p. 869.
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