Released 1968 Artist Rahsaan Roland Kirk Producer Joel Dorn Genre Jazz | Recorded June 17 & 18 1968 Release date 1968 Label Atlantic Records | |
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Left & Right
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Left & Right is an album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk. It was originally released on the Atlantic label in 1968 and features performances by Kirk with Jim Buffington, Julius Watkins, Frank Wess, Ron Burton, Vernon Martin and Roy Haynes with Warren Smith, Richard Williams, Dick Griffith, Benny Powell, Daniel Jones, Pepper Adams, Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Hopps and Gerald "Sonny" Brown featuring on an extended track and arrangements by Gil Fuller. 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".
Contents
Track listing
All compositions by Roland Kirk except as indicated.- "Black Mystery Has Been Revealed" - 1:17
- "Expansions: Kirkquest/Kingus Mingus/Celestialness/A Dream of Beauty Reincarnated/Frisco Vibrations/Classical Jazzical/El Kirk" - 19:37
- "Lady's Blues" - 3:46
- "IX Love" (Charles Mingus) - 3:40
- "Hot Cha" (Willie Woods) - 3:23
- "Quintessence" (Quincy Jones) - 4:11
- "I Waited for You" (Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie) - 2:54
- "A Flower is a Lovesome Thing" (Billy Strayhorn) - 3:55
Personnel
Songs
1Black Mystery Has Been Revealed1:20
2Expansions19:39
3Lady's Blues3:48