“Rahsaan”: The Complete Mercury Recordings of Roland Kirk

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Blues for Alice (alternate take)
  5:14
• 2
  Blues for Alice
  4:09
• 3
  My Delight
  4:30
• 4
  The Haunted Melody
  3:40
• 5
  A Sack Full of Soul
  4:40
• 6
  We Free Kings
  4:48
• 7
  Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
  4:08
• 8
  Moon Song
  4:23
• 9
  Some Kind of Love
  6:12
• 10
  Three for the Festival
  3:10
• 11
  You Did It, You Did It
  2:27
• CD 2
• 1
  Get Out of Town
  4:53
• 2
  Rolando
  3:49
• 3
  I Believe in You
  4:29
• 4
  Where Monk and Mingus Live / Let’s Call This
  4:10
• 5
  Domino
  4:07
• 6
  E.D.
  2:25
• 7
  I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
  2:19
• 8
  Someone to Watch Over Me
  3:45
• 9
  Termini’s Corner
  2:21
• 10
  When the Sun Comes Out
  2:45
• 11
  Ad Lib
  0:27
• 12
  Stitt’s Tune
  9:59
• 13
  I See With My Third ‘I’
  9:33
• 14
  Medley: If I Had You / Alone Together / For Heaven’s Sake
  7:32
• 15
  Afternoon in Paris
  5:52
• 16
  Lady ‘E’
  3:19
• CD 3
• 1
  Meeting on Termini’s Corner
  3:40
• 2
  Domino
  3:14
• 3
  Time
  3:13
• 4
  3-In-1 Without the Oil
  2:35
• 5
  A Stritch in Time
  5:06
• 6
  Lament
  3:39
• 7
  A Breath in the Wind
  5:09
• 8
  Land of Peace
  5:54
• 9
  Lonesome August Child
  4:36
• 10
  Limbo Boat
  3:02
• 11
  Hay Ro
  3:04
• 12
  Waltz of the Friends
  4:40
• CD 4
• 1
  This Is Always
  4:20
• 2
  Reeds and Deeds
  5:20
• 3
  Song of the Countrymen
  6:56
• 4
  Ecclusiastics
  4:30
• 5
  By Myself
  4:23
• 6
  Roland Speaks
  3:07
• 7
  A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
  5:16
• 8
  Variations on a Theme of Hindemith
  3:30
• 9
  I’ve Got Your Number
  5:58
• 10
  Between the Fourth and the Fifth Step
  3:43
• 11
  April Morning
  3:45
• 12
  Get in the Basement
  4:06
• 13
  Abstract Improvisation
  1:58
• CD 5
• 1
  Narrow Bolero (alternate take)
  8:25
• 2
  Narrow Bolero
  6:43
• 3
  My Heart Stood Still
  5:50
• 4
  [untitled #1]
  5:56
• 5
  Mood Indigo (alternate take)
  7:14
• 6
  Cabin in the Sky
  7:47
• 7
  On the Corner of King and Scott Streets
  4:41
• 8
  Untitled Blues
  6:17
• CD 6
• 1
  The Monkey Thing
  5:56
• 2
  Will You Still Be Mine
  8:40
• 3
  One for My Baby
  3:54
• 4
  We’ll Be Together Again
  5:21
• 5
  Mingus-Griff Song
  8:38
• 6
  Mood Indigo
  6:52
• 7
  Medley: Rock-A-Bye Baby / Nearness of You / [untitled # 3]
  12:35
• 8
  Half a Triple
  4:53
• CD 7
• 1
  Japan (take 7)
  3:05
• 2
  Japan (take 9)
  3:10
• 3
  Japan (take 10)
  3:08
• 4
  Berkshire Blues
  2:48
• 5
  Dirty Money Blues
  3:44
• 6
  Dirty Money Blues (alternate take)
  3:45
• 7
  Ad Lib (Hip Chops)
  3:09
• 8
  The Things I Love
  3:15
• 9
  Petite Fleur
  3:13
• 10
  March on, Swan Lake
  4:00
• 11
  Tears Sent by You
  6:01
• 12
  My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice
  3:24
• 13
  Gifts and Messages
  4:08
• 14
  Hip Chops
  3:35
• 15
  Blues for C & T
  3:08
• 16
  Where Does the Blame Lie
  2:52
• 17
  Vertigo Ro
  4:08
• 18
  Jive Elephant
  2:55
• CD 8
• 1
  I Talk With the Spirits
  3:57
• 2
  Serenade to a Cuckoo
  4:35
• 3
  Medley: We’ll Be Together Again / People From Funny Girl
  4:42
• 4
  Ruined Castles
  1:19
• 5
  Trees
  6:23
• 6
  Fugue’n and Alludin’
  0:44
• 7
  Django
  4:51
• 8
  My Ship
  5:06
• 9
  A Quote From Clifford Brown
  4:26
• 10
  The Business Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues
  5:02
• CD 9
• 1
  No Tonic Press
  4:35
• 2
  From Bechet, Fats and Byas
  6:32
• 3
  Slippery, Hippery, Flippery
  4:58
• 4
  Black Diamond
  5:24
• 5
  Rip, Rig and Panic
  7:01
• 6
  Once in a While
  4:02
• 7
  Mystical Dream
  2:40
• 8
  Walk on By
  2:35
• 9
  Juarez
  5:28
• 10
  Shakey Money
  2:40
• 11
  Ebrauqs
  8:27
• 12
  Raouf
  3:10
• 13
  Nothing but the Truth
  3:39
• 14
  Safari
  4:33
• 15
  It’s All in the Game
  5:24
• 16
  And I Love Her
  3:03
• CD 10
• 1
  A Taste of Honey

  Quincy Jones and His Orchestra
  2:37
• 2
  Dyna-Soar

  Quincy Jones and His Orchestra
  2:38
• 3
  Soul Bossa Nova

  Quincy Jones and His Orchestra
  2:49
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Comin’ Home Baby

  Quincy Jones and His Orchestra
  2:47
• 5
  Days of Wine and Roses

  Quincy Jones and His Orchestra
  2:48
• 6
  Moon River

  Quincy Jones and His Orchestra
  2:37
• 7
  Dreamsville

  Quincy Jones and His Orchestra
  3:53
• 8
  (I Love You) and Don’t You Forget It

  Quincy Jones and His Orchestra
  2:56
• 9
  Charade

  Quincy Jones and His Orchestra
  3:18
• 10
  Peter Gunn

  Quincy Jones and His Orchestra
  3:01
• 11
  I Had a Ball

  The Quincy Jones Big Band
  5:06
• 12
  Addie’s at It Again

  The Quincy Jones Big Band
  5:04
• CD 11
• 1
  A Stritch in Time
  7:05

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Release credits

• Abdullah Rafik
  double bass [4.9-12, 3.8-12]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [4-8]
• Andrew Hill
  celesta [3], piano [11.1, 3.1-2, 3.4-6]
• Art Blakey
  drums (drum set) [11-12]
• Art Davis
  double bass [1-5]
• Benny Golson
  arranger [10.12, 4.1-2, 4.4-8], tenor saxophone [11-12]
• Billy Byers
  arranger [11], trombone [5-10]
• Bob Cranshaw
  double bass [11-12]
• Bob Moses
  vibraphone [1, 6]
• Bobby Bryant
  trumpet [4]
• Bobby Scott
  piano [5-12], producer [1-2, 4-7, 9-10]
• Charles Greenlee
  trombone [3.8-12, 4.4-8]
• Charlie Persip
  drums (drum set) [1-11]
• Chris White
  double bass [3]
• Clark Terry
  trumpet [3, 5-8]
• Clifford Jarvis
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Crystal Joy
  vocal [1-2]
• Curtis Fuller
  trombone [11-12]
• Dick Hixson
  trombone [5-10]
• Dizzy Gillespie
  trumpet [11-12]
• Don Butterfield
  tuba [4-8]
• Don Moore
  double bass [6.1-8, 5.1-8]
• Eddie Baccus
  organ [7]
• Eddie Mathias
  double bass [8-16]
• Elvin Jones
  drums (drum set) [1-7]
• Ernie Royal
  trumpet [5-10]
• Freddie Hubbard
  trumpet [11-12]
• Garnett Brown
  trombone [8-16]
• Gary Burton
  vibraphone [5-10]
• George Berg
  reeds [9-10]
• Hank Jones
  piano [6-11]
• Harold Mabern
  piano [3.8-12, 4.1-11]
• Harvey Phillips
  tuba [5-8]
• Henry Duncan
  drums (drum set) [1-6]
• Herbie Hancock
  piano [4-5, 7-11]
• Horace Parlan
  celesta [4, 7], piano [8.1-3, 8.5, 8.7-10, 9.8-16, 7.5-6, 7.8-18]
• J.C. Moses
  drums (drum set) [5.1-8, 6.1-8]
• J.J. Johnson
  trombone [11-12]
• Jack Tracy
  producer [2.1-11, 3.1-6]
• Jaki Byard
  piano [1-7]
• James Moody
  flute [12-16], tenor saxophone [12-16], woodwind [10.11-12, 2.12-16]
• Jerome Richardson
  reeds [5-10]
• Jerry Dodgion
  alto saxophone [11-12]
• Jim Buffington
  French horn [5-8]
• Jimmy Maxwell
  trumpet [5-12]
• Jimmy Nottingham
  trumpet [11-12]
• Joe Newman
  trumpet [11-12]
• John Bello
  trumpet [9-10]
• Kai Winding
  trombone [11-12]
• Lalo Schifrin
  piano [3]
• Louis Hayes
  drums (drum set) [12-16]
• Lucky Thompson
  tenor saxophone [11-12]
• Major Holley
  double bass [1-2, 9-10]
• Margaret Ross
  harp [5-8]
• Martin Banks
  flugelhorn [8-16]
• Martin Grupp
  percussion [5-8]
• Melba Liston
  trombone [11-12]
• Michael Fleming
  double bass [8.1-3, 8.5, 8.7-10, 7.4-6, 7.8-18]
• Milt Hinton
  double bass [5-10]
• Milt Jackson
  vibraphone [11-12]
• Mose Fowler
  guitar [7]
• Mundell Lowe
  guitar [5-8]
• Nat Adderley
  trumpet [11-12]
• Niels‐Henning Ørsted Pedersen
  double bass [5.1-8, 6.1-8]
• Osie Johnson
  drums (drum set) [5-10]
• Paul Gonsalves
  tenor saxophone [3]
• Pepper Adams
  baritone saxophone [11-12]
• Phil Kraus
  percussion [9-10]
• Phil Ramone
  recording [3]
• Phil Woods
  alto saxophone [11-12], reeds [9-10]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [5-10]
• Quincy Jones
  arranger [1-2, 4-10], conductor [1-12], instrument arranger [3], producer [3]
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk
  alto saxophone [7.15, 4.2], castanets [6], flute [7.1-3, 7.5-7, 7.9, 7.14, 4.2, 8.1-2, 8.4-10, 10.3, 3.7], melodica [4], oboe [17], reeds [5-10], saxophone [7.7-8, 7.12-14, 9.2-6], tenor saxophone [4.2, 7.1-3, 7.5-6, 7.10-11, 7.15-18, 9.1-2, 10.11-12], vocal [4-6], woodwind [5.1-8, 11.1, 3.1-6, 3.8-12, 6.1-8, 9.7-16, 2.1-16, 1.1-11, 10.1-2, 10.4, 4.1, 4.3-13]
• Ray Alonge
  French horn [5-8]
• Red Callender
  tuba [4]
• Richard Davis
  double bass [4.1-8, 9.1-7]
• Richard Williams
  trumpet [4-8]
• Richard Wyands
  piano [1-5]
• Robert Northern
  French horn [5-8]
• Romeo Penque
  reeds [9-10]
• Roy Haynes
  drums (drum set) [1-11]
• Rudy Collins
  drums (drum set) [3]
• Sam Jones
  bass [12-16], double bass [12-16]
• Seldon Powell
  reeds [9-10]
• Snooky Young
  trumpet [5-10]
• Sonny Boy Williamson
  harmonica [5.8, 6.1]
• Sonny Brown
  drums (drum set) [4.9-12, 9.8-16]
• Stan Webb
  reeds [5-8]
• Steve Ellington
  drums (drum set) [5-6, 8-18]
• Tete Montoliu
  piano [5.1-8, 6.1-8]
• The Benny Golson Orchestra
  performing orchestra [7]
• Tom McIntosh
  trombone [1-8]
• Tony Miranda
  French horn [5-8]
• Tony Studd
  trombone [5-10]
• Tubby Hayes
  tenor saxophone [12-16], vibraphone [12-16]
• Urbie Green
  trombone [5-10]
• Vernon Martin
  bass [3.1-6, 2.1, 2.3, 2.6], double bass [2.2, 2.4-5, 2.7-11, 11.1]
• Vinnie Bell
  guitar [9-10]
• Virgil Jones
  trumpet [9.8-16, 3.8-12, 4.1-8]
• Walter Bishop, Jr.
  piano [12-16]
• Walter Perkins
  drums (drum set) [3.8-12, 4.1-3, 8.1-2, 8.5, 8.7-10]
• Wendell Marshall
  bass [10], double bass [6-9, 11]
• Wynton Kelly
  piano [1-3, 6]
• [unknown]
  drums (drum set) [7]
• 児山紀芳
  compiler
• 小林平九郎
  art direction, design
• 常盤清
  editor, mastering, transfer
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Issues

• 
  “Rahsaan”: The Complete Mercury Recordings of Roland Kirk

  11x CD
  1990