Released 1976 Artist Rahsaan Roland Kirk Producer Joel Dorn Genre Jazz | Recorded March, 1976 Release date 1976 Label Atlantic Records | |
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Other Folks' Music
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Other Folks' Music is an album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk featuring performances by Kirk with Richard Williams, Kermit Moore, Gloria Agostini, Trudy Pitts, Hilton Ruiz, Henry Mattathias Pearson, Roy Haynes, Sonny Brown, Arthur Jenkins and Joe Habad Texidor recorded in March 1976.
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Reception
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states "Other Folks' Music is perhaps his most dizzying and troubling recording. Meant to be both a tribute and a pointer for the next move in modern black music, Other Folks' Music is, when all is said and done, a very private altar adorned with much of Kirk's personal iconography... in all of Kirk's moods and segues, his usually indelible mark of inseparability — the trace that says that this is all one music and we are all one people — is missing here, and the listener can feel the separation between tracks, and sometimes inside the tracks themselves. The music is still topnotch, but that nagging ghost of isolation on Other Folks' Music can still haunt the listener".
Track listing
All compositions by Rahsaan Roland Kirk except as indicated.- "Water for Robeson and Williams" (Rahsaan Roland Kirk) - 3:48
- "That's All" (Alan Brandt, Bob Haymes) - 7:39
- "Donna Lee" (Charlie Parker) - 4:10
- "Simone" (Frank Foster) - 9:05
- "Anysha" (Trudy Pitts) - 8:13
- "Samba Kwa Mwanamke Mweusi" (Henry Mattathias Pearson) - 6:53
- "Arrival" (Hilton Ruiz) - 7:09
Personnel
Songs
1Water for Robeson and Williams3:45
2That's All7:38
3Donna Lee4:10