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Left and Right (album)

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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 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.
  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

  • Roland Kirk: tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, clarinet, flute, organ, narration, thumb piano, celesta
  • Jim Buffington, Julius Watkins: french horn
  • Frank Wess: woodwinds
  • Richard Williams: trumpet (track 2)
  • Dick Griffith, Benny Powell: trombone (track 2)
  • Daniel Jones: basoon (track 2)
  • Pepper Adams: baritone saxophone (track 2)
  • Alice Coltrane: harp (track 2)
  • Ron Burton: piano
  • Vernon Martin: bass
  • Roy Haynes: drums
  • Jimmy Hopps: drums (track 2)
  • Warren Smith: percussion, vocals
  • Gerald "Sonny" Brown: percussion (track 2)
  • Gil Fuller: arranger
  • Unidentified strings

    • Songs

    1Black Mystery Has Been Revealed1:20
    2Expansions19:39
    3Lady's Blues3:48

    References

    Left & Right (album) Wikipedia
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