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1	Volunteered Slavery (1969) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist Before the issue of Blacknuss, Rahsaan Roland Kirk was already exploring ways in which to make soul and R&B rub up against jazz and come out sounding like deep-heart party music. Volunteered Slavery, with its beat/African chanted poetry and post-bop blues ethos was certainly the first strike in the right direction. With a band that included ... see all copies from $3.27! new only from $8.43!
2	Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas [Verve] (1989) more music like this by Various Artists add to wishlist This 15-track CD has something for everyone: the smooth vocal styling of Billy Eckstine on "Christmas Eve," and the purring Dinah Washington on the seductive "Ole Santa," and Ella Fitzgerald showing her soft and sentimental side on the single, "The Secret of Christmas." Billie Holiday, with help from Benny Carter and Sweets Edison, warms up the ... see all copies from $4.15! new only from $4.99!
3	Bright Moments (1973) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist Rahsaan Roland Kirk's live club gigs were usually engaging, freewheeling affairs, full of good humor and a fantastically wide range of music. The double album Bright Moments (reissued as a double CD) is a near-definitive document of the Kirk live experience, and his greatest album of the '70s. The extroverted Kirk was in his element in front of an ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $18.00!
4	Blacknuss (1971) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist From its opening bars, with Bill Salter's bass and Rahsaan's flute passionately playing Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine," you know this isn't an ordinary Kirk album (were any of them?). As the string section, electric piano, percussion, and Cornel Dupree's guitar slip in the back door, one can feel the deep soul groove Kirk is bringing to the ... see all copies from $8.99! new only from $8.99!
5	Inflated Tear [UK Bonus Track] (1967) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist The debut recording, Inflated Tear, by Roland Kirk (this was still pre-Rahsaan) on Atlantic Records -- the same label that gave us Blacknuss and Volunteered Slavery -- is not the blow-fest one might expect upon hearing it for the first time. In fact, producer Joel Dorn and label boss Nesuhi Ertegun weren't prepared for it either. Kirk had come to ... see all copies from $9.99! new only from $9.99!
6	Domino (1962) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist The expanding musical universe of Rahsaan Roland Kirk continues its orbit on Domino. While always true to his exceptional talents, Kirk's previous efforts are somewhat derivative when compared to his later and more aggressive sound. On Domino, the genesis of his more assertive presence is thoroughly evident. Additionally, this disc features ... see all copies from $10.44! new only from $10.44!
7	Rip, Rig and Panic/Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith (1990) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist Combining the short yet solid 1965 release, Rip, Rig and Panic with Rahsaan Roland Kirk's 1967 release Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith, this two-fer presents a perfect portrait of Kirk's mid-'60s sound. While the albums are very different stylistically, Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith's mix of avant-garde and groove sounds ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $12.47!
8	Kirk's Work (1961) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk/Jack McDuff add to wishlist Kirk's Work -- Rahsaan Roland Kirk's third long-player -- teams him up with organist "Brother" Jack McDuff for Kirk's most soulful post-bop set to date. His unorthodox performance style incorporates the polyphonies of a tenor sax, flute, manzello, and stritch. The latter instrument is Kirk's own modification of a second-generation B-flat soprano ... see all copies from $8.16! new only from $8.16!
9	The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks (1993) more music like this by Various Artists add to wishlist This is not and cannot be the Complete Cole Porter Songbooks, but it's a marvelous collection of 48 timeless jazz interpretations drawn from the Verve catalog. Recorded between 1951 and 1988, these standards, ballads and show tunes are rendered by some 15 vocalists, many of whom appear twice, and about 13 instrumental groups. In addition to the ... see all copies from $31.99! new only from $31.99!
10	Prepare Thyself to Deal With a Miracle (1973) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist Recorded in 1973, this is yet another criminally underappreciated Rahsaan Roland Kirk recording from the last phase of a remarkable career. This is perhaps Kirk's most experimental recording in that it involves his most involved performing on multiple horns and flutes -- including his infamous and wonderful nose flute -- and working with drones on ... see all copies from $9.46! new only from $9.46!
11	A Night Out With Verve (2000) more music like this by Various Artists add to wishlist A Night Out With Verve highlights five decades of remarkable jazz taken from the Verve catalog, spread out over four discs titled "Wining," "Dining," "Dancing," and "Romancing." This budget-priced box set includes 65 performances from jazz luminaries including Oscar Peterson, Sonny Rollins, Michel Legrand, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz, Louis Armstrong ... see all copies from $23.32! new only from $24.69!
12	Roland Kirk's Finest Hour (2001) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist As difficult as it is to adequately present such a talented, driven, quirky and unique musician, this compilation tries. Drawn from his Mercury and Verve recordings, mostly from the first half of the '60s, this worthy release eschews his later, more experimental work on Atlantic. Whether playing two or three woodwinds simultaneously, wailing on ... see all copies from $5.84! new only from $14.23!
13	Left and Right (1968) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist 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. For starters, the band is huge -- 17 players plus a 16-piece string section, all of it arranged and conducted by Kirk, a blind man. None of this ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $9.00!
14	Kirkatron/Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real (2005) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist This issue combines two late-period Rahsaan Roland Kirk albums: Kirkatron, begun shortly before the major stroke that debilitated him and shortened his life, and Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real, his first attempt at a comeback and his final recording. Kirkatron hosts three tunes recorded for it, and nine more that were outtakes from the ... see all copies from $9.78! new only from $9.78!
15	Compliments of the Mysterious Phantom (2003) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist For those who believed Bright Moments was "it" when it came to Rahsaan Roland Kirk live recordings -- meaning that Joel Dorn's various live Kirk packages have been substandard in comparison, though not without considerable interest -- Christmas came early in 2003. Compliments of the Mysterious Phantom (the "phantom" believed to be producer Victor ... see all copies from $9.97! new only from $9.97!
16	Brotherman in the Fatherland (2006) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist It's very tempting to go off on Joel Dorn for his decision to call a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record recorded live in Germany Brotherman in the Fatherland. Dorn's had questionable taste about all kinds of things since he began running record labels that have had numerous names attached to them -- Kirk's music is not one of them. This gig, recorded in ... see all copies from $14.02! new only from $14.02!
17	Inflated Tear/Natural Black Inventions: Roots Strata (2004) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist Recorded in 1968 and in 1971 respectively, this two-fer showcases two very different sides of the late and truly great Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Inflated Tear was recorded with Kirk's working band at the time and was his Atlantic debut. Having not yet adopted the title Rahsaan , Kirk surprised his producer Joel Dorn and label boss Nesuhi Ertegun with ... see all copies from $9.65! new only from $9.65!
18	The Return of the 5000 Lb. Man (1976) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist The Return of the 5000 Lb. Man was Rahsaan Roland Kirk's first album for Warner Brothers, recorded before the stroke that impaired him. Kirk is at full creative and musical strength. These seven tracks are an utter astonishment. Kirk's playing of saxophones, harmonica, flutes, and euphonium is deep, soulful, and even profound in places. "Theme for ... see all copies from $8.49! new only from $8.49!
19	The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color (1975) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist Perhaps I am an apologist for Rahsaan Roland Kirk, I don't know. If I am then I should be smacked, because he needed no one to make apologies for him. The Case of the 3-Sided Dream in Audio Color is a case in point. The namby-pamby jazz critics, those "serious" guys who look for every note to be in order before they'll say anything positive, can ... see all copies from $9.21! new only from $9.21!
20	The Man Who Cried Fire (2002) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist Perhaps more than any other player, Rahsaan Roland Kirk embodied the entire history of not only jazz but 20th century American music in his playing. No matter which of the many horns he played (more often than not three at once), he would cut through an original composition, something from the current pop repertoire, or a jazz or R&B nugget that ... see all copies from $4.00!
21	Pre Rahsaan (2007) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist This disc places (pre-Rahsaan )Roland Kirk's 1961 session Kirk's Work, the multi-instrumentalist's second album after one for Argo (Cadet) together with a prime, 1968 Jaki Byard LP on which Kirk was a sideman called The Jaki Byard Experience. This was a way Prestige (then owned by Fantasy Records) of packaging its catalog. They did two-fers like ... see all copies from $13.78! new only from $13.78!
22	A Meeting of the Times/Ornette! (1999) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk & Al Hibbler/Ornette Coleman add to wishlist Your attention please: this duplex reissue disc does not contain two complete albums. One beautiful track -- "Something 'Bout Believing," Rahsaan's passionate rendition of a melody from Duke Ellington's Second Sacred Concert of 1968 -- was omitted simply because there wasn't room on the disc. And if there wasn't room on the disc for these two ... see all copies from $12.35! new only from $12.35!
23	Other Folks' Music (1976) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk add to wishlist From Roland Kirk's "classical" period, 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. Recorded in 1976 using a fairly ... see all copies from $10.28! new only from $10.28!
24	Rahsaan Rahsaan (1970) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk & The Vibration Society add to wishlist Roland Kirk and his band -- which, along with his normal companions Howard Johnson on tuba, Dick Griffin on trombone, Ron Burton on piano, and Vernon Martin on bass, added Leroy Jenkins on violin, Alvern Bunn on conga, Sonelius Smith on celeste and piano, and Joe Texidor on various sound objects to the mix -- once more indulge his obsession with ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $9.00!
25	Atlantic Jazz: Singers (1990) more music like this by Various Artists add to wishlist Spotlighting both jazz singers and R&B-minded vocalists on the jazz tip, Atlantic Jazz: Singers delivers a mostly generous and stunning mix spanning the late '40s to the mid-'80s. From the traditional jazz camp, top songbirds Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McCrae, Helen Merrill, Chris Connor, Peggy Lee, and Betty Carter all hit their spots in fine fashion. ... see all copies from $1.99!

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