Kirk's Work

Artist: Rahsaan Roland Kirk , and Jack McDuff
Label: Ojc
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 025218645928
EAN: 0025218645928
ASIN: B000000YPM

Release Date: 1991-07-01

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Jazz that doesnt suck- for rockers and fans of good music

Tracks:

Three For Dizzy
Makin' Whoopee
Funk Underneath
Kirk's Work
Doin' The Sixty-Eight
Too Late Now
Skater's Waltz

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Customer Reviews:

Amazing album.......2007-01-04

This is one of Rahsaan Roland Kirk's best albums. Randy Mcduff's keyboard work gives the album a bluesy, funky edge.

great CD.......2006-06-25

this is a great CD. Rahsaan is his usual melodic self on the reeds and boy, do I love Brother Jack McDuff playing that Hammond B-3 organ! Every track is great, the music swings.

Not one weak track.......2005-01-24

"Kirk's Work" was recorded (not released) on June 11th, 1961. Throughout the album Roland Kirk, Jack McDuff, Joe Benjamin and Arthur Taylor are featured playing tunes based on the forms of blues and rhythm changes.
Every song has a good feel, a good groove, and the sound quality is very good throughout. Kirk plays his trademark instruments simultaneously, but not as a constant showcase; he merely uses the "multi-element" as an effect here and there on certain songs, which works better in this down-to-earth music than had the "multi-element" predominated.
The fresh sound of the Hammond organ fits in nicely and ties the album together. There aren't too many early 60's jazz recordings featuring Hammond - get this album for a great Hammond sound and feel.
Unfortunately, this edition of the album (OJCCD-459-2) is missing approximately the first second of track 1. The first second of track 2 begins at the end of track 1, the first second of track 3 begins at the end of track 2 etc. It's as if they'd pressed "play" before "rec."
There's also 1 minute and 40 seconds of silence at the end of the last track (making the album 34:40 long even though there are only 33 minutes of music.)
At the time of my writing this review, amazon.com wants $12.97 for this disc, but since it's not very long, and since the edition has the audio weaknesses mentioned above (and even though amazon provides reliable service,) I'd suggest for you to find another edition, because music this good should be presented a little bit better.

Doin' The Sixty-Eight = Senor Blues?.......2002-12-28

Jack McDuff steals the record and this is up there with some of Jimmy Smith's best work on the organ. Roland Kirk is incredible, too, but listen to the clip of Kirk-arranged "Doin' the Sixty-Eight": that's a not very veiled version of Horace Silver's "Senor Blues" or I'm a monkey's uncle.

Great Combo.......2002-07-08

Every track on this album bubbles with energy. When McDuff Takes an organ solo, Kirk backs him up with 3 horns. The two sound great together, and the rhythm section is unbeatable.

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