Description
**THIS IS A VINYL LP**
Release Date: 2025
Label: Mercury (Acoustic Sounds Series)
Track List
Side A
- Three For The Festival
- Moon Song
- A Sack Full Of Soul
- The Haunted Melody
- Blues For Alice
Side B
- We Free Kings
- You Did It, You Did It
- Some Kind Of Love
- My Delight
Notes
Mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab from the original master tape
180-gram LP pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
Stoughton Printing gatefold old-style tip-on jackets
Series supervised by Chad Kassem CEO of Acoustic Sounds
We Free Kings is considered one of Roland Kirk’s musically significant early works. The array of horns that Kirk draped over his neck was for far more than show. He could play multiple saxophones and even nose flutes simultaneously. The repertoire here underlines Kirk’s abilities as a composer (seven of the nine pieces are by him). But his interpretation of Charlie Parker’s “Blues For Alice” is brilliant. “A Sack Full of Soul” is a kicker, with the bridge jump-started by Kirk’s tenor, manzello, and stritch. Pianist Richard Wyands does a splendid job backing Kirk, keeping things on track whether in the bluesiest of modes as on “You Did It” or in a dancingly melodic groove as on the title track.
