Detailed item info | Track listing | DISC 1: 1. Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am 2. Conversation 3. Bye Bye Blackbird 4. Horses (Monogram/Republic) 5. If I Loved You 6. Old Rugged Cross 7. Ain't No Sunshine 8. Volunteered Slavery 9. Seasons: One Mind Winter/Summer / Ninth Ghost 10. Introduction 11. Going Home / Sentimental Journey / In Monument / Lover 12. Black and Crazy Blues, The 13. I Say a Little Prayer 14. This Love Of Mine / Roots
DISC 2: 1. Inflated Tear, The 2. Blacknuss 3. I Love You Yes I Do 4. Portrait of Those Beautiful Ladies 5. Water For Robeson and Williams 6. Laugh For Rory, A 7. Entertainer, The (Done in the Style of the Blues) 8. Black Root 9. Carney and Begard Place 10. Anysha 11. Making Love After Hours 12. Freaks For the Festival 13. Sesroh 14. Bye Bye Blackbird 15. Conversation 16. Three For the Festival 17. Bright Moments - (excerpt)
| | Details | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording type: | Mixed | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel includes: Rahsaan Roland Kirk (tenor, baritone & bass saxophones, stritch, manzello, clarinet, flute, piccolo, trumpet, English horn, pipes, harmonica, whistle, harmonium, percussion, vocals), Charles Mingus (piano, vocals), Cissy Houston (vocals), Charles McGhee (trumpet), Dick Griffin (trombone), Ron Burton (piano), Cornell Dupree, Keith Loving, Hugh McCracken (guitar), Vernon Martin, Steve Novosel, Major Holley, Ron Carter (bass), Sonny Brown, Steve Gadd, John Goldsmith, Bernard Purdie, Charles Crosby, Jimmy Hopps (drums), Joe Habao Texidor (percussion). Producers: Nesuhi Ertegun, Joel Dorn, Roland Kirk. Compilation producer: Joel Dorn. Recorded between 1961 and 1976. Includes liner notes by Joel Dorn, Stan Dunn, Hal Willner and Stanley Crouch. A man who spent his entire two-decades-plus career railing against the concept of musical prejudices, legendary reedman Rahsaan Roland Kirk took what he liked from fusion, light jazz-pop, avant-garde experimentation, and every bit of his own encyclopedic knowledge of jazz history to create a thoroughly individual sound, a passionate blend of humor, anger, and uncompromising principles. This two-disc, 31-selection anthology, compiled and sequenced by Kirk's creative foil, producer Joel Dorn, covers his commercially and artistically fruitful tenure at Atlantic Records from 1968 to 1975, along with a 1961 Charles Mingus date, OH YEAH, which features Kirk's trademark multi-reed playing. While the necessary lack of any recordings from his '60s tenure at Mercury Records keeps DOES YOUR HOUSE HAVE LIONS from being a definitive Kirk anthology, there can be no argument with this extraordinary music, and it's the most concise introduction yet to Kirk's multi-faceted genius.
| | Editorial reviews | ...This joyous two-CD overview of Roland Kirk's Atlantic years is long overdue, as is a critical reappraisal of this great jazz griot. Kirk's rap and his love for crunchy rhythms and bluesy melodic ideas anticipated many of today's trends... Musician (12/01/1993)
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