Left & Right (album)

Left & Right
Left & Right
Studio album by Roland Kirk
Released	1969
Recorded	June 17–18 1968
Genre	Jazz
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Joel Dorn
Roland Kirk chronology

Left & Right is an album by the jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk, released on the Atlantic label in 1969.^[3]^[4] It contains performances by Kirk with Jim Buffington, Julius Watkins, Frank Wess, Rahn Burton, Vernon Martin and Roy Haynes, with Warren Smith, Richard Williams, Dick Griffin, Benny Powell, Pepper Adams, Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Hopps, Daniel Jones and Gerald "Sonny" Brown featuring on an extended track with orchestration by Gil Fuller.^[5]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[2]

Critical reception

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".^[1]

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

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: bassoon (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

References

^ ^a ^b AllMusic Review
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 829. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Kun, Josh (2005). Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America. University of California Press. p. 280. ISBN 9780520225107.
^ Goldmark, Daniel (2012). David Ake; Charles Hiroshi Garrett; Daniel Goldmark (eds.). Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries. University of California Press. p. 154. ISBN 9780520271036.
^ Rahsaan Roland Kirk discography accessed 12 August 2009

[AM-1] AllMusic Review

[Penguin-2] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 829. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[3] Kun, Josh (2005). Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America. University of California Press. p. 280. ISBN 9780520225107.

[4] Goldmark, Daniel (2012). David Ake; Charles Hiroshi Garrett; Daniel Goldmark (eds.). Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries. University of California Press. p. 154. ISBN 9780520271036.

[Kirk_disco-5] Rahsaan Roland Kirk discography accessed 12 August 2009

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