The Best Of Rahsaan Roland Kirk by Rahsaan Roland Kirk

The Best Of Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

1971

The Best Of Rahsaan Roland Kirk is a Jazz album by Rahsaan Roland Kirk, originally released in 1971. On Gatefold: 12 pressings tracked.

Sound DNA

  • Jazz
  • Avant-Garde & Free Jazz
  • angular
  • chaotic
  • cerebral

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Tracklist

  1. 1Blues for Alice (Alternate Take)5:14
  2. 2Blues for Alice4:09
  3. 3My Delight4:30
  4. 4The Haunted Melody3:40
  5. 5A Sack Full of Soul4:40
  6. 6We Free Kings4:48
  7. 7Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year4:08
  8. 8Moon Song4:23
  9. 9Some Kind of Love6:12
  10. 10Three for the Festival3:10
  11. 11You Did It, You Did It2:27
  12. 2.1Get Out of Town4:53
  13. 2.2Rolando3:49
  14. 2.3I Believe In You4:29
  15. 2.4Where Monk and Mingus Live / Let's Call This4:10
  16. 2.5Domino (Alternate Take)4:07
  17. 2.6E.D.2:25
  18. 2.7I Didn't Know What Time It Was (Alternate Take 2)2:19
  19. 2.8Someone to Watch Over Me (Alternate Take)3:45
  20. 2.9Termini's Corner2:21
  21. 2.10When the Sun Comes Out2:45
  22. 2.11Ad Lib0:27
  23. 2.12Stitt's Tune9:59
  24. 2.13I See With My Third "I"9:33
  25. 2.14Medley: If I Had You/Alone Together/For Heaven's Sake7:32
  26. 2.15Afternoon in Paris5:52
  27. 2.16Lady "E"3:20
  28. 3.1Meeting on Termini's Corner3:40
  29. 3.2Domino3:14
  30. 3.3Time3:13
  31. 3.43-In-1 Without the Oil2:35
  32. 3.5A Stritch in Time5:06
  33. 3.6Lament3:39
  34. 3.7A Breath in the Wind5:09
  35. 3.8Land of Peace5:54
  36. 3.9Lonesome August Child4:36
  37. 3.10Limbo Boat3:02
  38. 3.11Hay Ro3:04
  39. 3.12Waltz of the Friends4:40
  40. 4.1This Is Always4:20
  41. 4.2Reeds and Deeds5:20
  42. 4.3Song of the Countrymen6:56
  43. 4.4Ecclusiastics4:30
  44. 4.5By Myself4:23
  45. 4.6Roland Speaks3:07
  46. 4.7A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square5:16
  47. 4.8Variations on a Theme of Hindemith3:30
  48. 4.9I've Got Your Number5:58
  49. 4.10Between the Fourth and the Fifth Step3:43
  50. 4.11April Morning3:45
  51. 4.12Get in the Basement4:06
  52. 4.13Abstract Improvisation1:58
  53. 5.1Narrow Bolero (Alternate Take / Live At Club Montmarte, Copenhagen/1963)8:25
  54. 5.2Narrow Bolero (Live At Club Montmarte, Copenhagen/1963)6:43
  55. 5.3My Heart Stood Still (Live At Club Montmarte, Copenhagen/1963)5:50
  56. 5.4No Title No.1 (Live At Club Montmarte, Copenhagen/1963)5:56
  57. 5.5Mood Indigo (Alternate / Live At Club Montmarte, Copenhagen/1963)7:14
  58. 5.6Cabin in the Sky (Live At Club Montmarte, Copenhagen/1963)7:47
  59. 5.7On the Corner of King and Scott Streets (Live At Club Montmarte, Copenhagen/1963)4:41
  60. 5.8Untitled Blues (Live At Club Montmarte, Copenhagen/1963)6:17
  61. 6.1The Monkey Thing (Live At Club Montmarte, Copenhagen/1963)5:56
  62. 6.2Will You Still Be Mine (Live At Club Montmarte, Copenhagen/1963)8:40
  63. 6.3One for My Baby (Live At Club Montmarte, Copenhagen/1963)3:54
  64. 6.4We'll Be Together Again (Live At Club Montmarte, Copenhagen/1963)5:21
  65. 6.5Mingus-Griff Song (Live At Club Montmarte, Copenhagen/1963)8:38
  66. 6.6Mood Indigo (Live At Club Montmarte, Copenhagen/1963)6:52
  67. 6.7Medley: Rock-A-Bye Baby/Nearness of You/No Title No. 3 (Live At Club Montmarte, Copenhagen/1963)12:35
  68. 6.8Half a Triple (Live At Club Montmarte, Copenhagen/1963)4:54
  69. 7.1Japan (Ver. 1)3:05
  70. 7.2Japan (Ver. 2)3:10
  71. 7.3Japan (Ver. 3)3:08
  72. 7.4Berkshire Blues2:48
  73. 7.5Dirty Money Blues3:44
  74. 7.6Dirty Money Blues (Alternate Version)3:45
  75. 7.7Ad Lib (Hip Chops)3:09
  76. 7.8The Things I Love3:15
  77. 7.9Petite Fleur3:13
  78. 7.10March On, Swan Lake4:00
  79. 7.11Tears Sent by You6:01
  80. 7.12My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice3:24
  81. 7.13Gifts and Messages4:08
  82. 7.14Hip Chops3:35
  83. 7.15Blues for C & T3:08
  84. 7.16Where Does the Blame Lie2:52
  85. 7.17Vertigo Ro4:08
  86. 7.18Jive Elephant2:56
  87. 8.1I Talk with the Spirits3:57
  88. 8.2Serenade to a Cuckoo4:35
  89. 8.3Medley: We'll Be Together Again/People from "Funny Girl"4:42
  90. 8.4Ruined Castles1:19
  91. 8.5Trees6:23
  92. 8.6Fugue'n and Alludin'0:44
  93. 8.7Django4:51
  94. 8.8My Ship5:06
  95. 8.9A Quote from Clifford Brown4:26
  96. 8.10The Business Ain't Nothin' but the Blues5:02
  97. 9.1No Tonic Press4:35
  98. 9.2From Bechet, Fats and Byas6:32
  99. 9.3Slippery Hippery Flippery4:58
  100. 9.4Black Diamond5:24
  101. 9.5Rip, Rig and Panic7:01
  102. 9.6Once in a While4:02
  103. 9.7Mystical Dream2:40
  104. 9.8Walk On By2:35
  105. 9.9Juarez5:28
  106. 9.10Shakey Money2:40
  107. 9.11Ebrauqs8:27
  108. 9.12Raouf3:10
  109. 9.13Nothing but the Truth3:39
  110. 9.14Safari4:33
  111. 9.15It's All in the Game5:24
  112. 9.16And I Love Her3:03
  113. 10.1A Taste of Honey (Single Version)2:37
  114. 10.2Dyna-Soar2:38
  115. 10.3Soul Bossa Nova2:49
  116. 10.4Comin' Home Baby2:47
  117. 10.5Days of Wine and Roses2:48
  118. 10.6Moon River2:37
  119. 10.7Dreamsville3:53
  120. 10.8(I Love You) And Don't You Forget It2:56
  121. 10.9Charade3:18
  122. 10.10Peter Gunn3:01
  123. 10.11I Had a Ball5:06
  124. 10.12Addie's at It Again5:05
  125. 11.1A Stritch in Time (Live At The Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI / 1962)7:04

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Songwriting

Rare pressing on Gatefold · 12 pressings tracked on Gatefold