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Only The Best Of, Volume 1

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Initial release : 2009

Collectables

A 7 CD box set release that brings together 8 Roland Kirk albums originally released on Atlantic.

Tracks

The Inflated Tear / Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata;

  • The Black and Crazy Blues (Kirk)
  • A Laugh for Rory (Kirk)
  • Many Blessings (Kirk)
  • Fingers in the Wind (Kirk)
  • The Inflated Tear (Kirk)
  • The Creole Love Call (Ellington)
  • A Handful of Fives (Kirk)
  • Fly by Night (Kirk)
  • Lovellevelliloqui (Kirk)
  • Something for Trane That Trane Could Have Said (Kirk)
  • Island Cry (Kirk)
  • Runnin' from the Trash (Kirk)
  • Day Dream (Ellington / LaTouche / Strayhorn)
  • The Ragman and the Junkman Ran from the Businessman They Laughed and He Cried (Kirk)
  • Breath-A-Thon (Kirk)
  • Rahsaanica (Kirk)
  • Raped Voices (Kirk)
  • Haunted Feelings (Kirk)
  • Prelude Back Home (Kirk)
  • Dance of the Lobes (Kirk)
  • Harder & Harder Spiritual (Kirk)
  • Black Root (Kirk)
Left & Right;
  • Black Mystery Has Been Revealed (Kirk)
  • Expansions: Kirkquest/KingusMingus/Celestialness/A Dream of Beauty (Kirk)
  • Lady's Blues (Kirk)
  • IX Love (Mingus)
  • Hot Cha (Woods)
  • Quintessence (Jones)
  • I Waited for You (Fuller / Gillespie)
  • A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing (Strayhorn)
Blacknuss;
  • Ain't No Sunshine (Withers)
  • What's Goin' On/Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (Benson / Cleveland / Gaye)
  • I Love You Yes I Do (Allen / Cameron)
  • Take Me Girl, I'm Ready (Bristol / Sawyer / Ware)
  • My Girl (Robinson / White)
  • Which Way Is It Going (Kirk)
  • One Nation (Burton)
  • Never Can Say Goodbye (Davis)
  • Old Rugged Cross (Traditional)
  • Make It with You (Gates)
  • Blacknuss (Kirk)
The Case of the 3 Sided Dream In Audio Color;
  • Conversation
  • Bye Bye Blackbird (Dixon / Henderson)
  • Horses (Kirk)
  • High Heel Sneakers (Higginbotham)
  • Dream (Kirk)
  • Echoes of Primitive Ohio & Chili Dogs (Kirk)
  • The Entertainer (Done in the Style of the Blues) (Eaton / Joplin)
  • Freaks for the Festival (Kirk)
  • Dream (Kirk)
  • Portrait of Those Beautiful Ladies (Kirk)
  • Dream (Kirk)
  • The Entertainer (Eaton / Joplin)
  • Dream (Kirk)
  • Portrait of Those Beautiful Ladies (Kirk)
  • Dream (Kirk)
  • Freaks for the Festival (Kirk)
  • Horses (Kirk)
  • Bye Bye Blackbird (Dixon / Henderson)
  • Conversation
  • Side Four
Other Folks Music;
  • Water for Robeson and Williams (Kirk)
  • That's All (Brandt / Haymes)
  • Donna Lee (Parker)
  • Simone (Foster)
  • Anysha (Pitts)
  • Samba Kwa Mwanamke Mweusi (Pearson)
  • Arrival (Ruiz)
Kirkatron;
  • Serenade to a Cuckoo (Kirk)
  • This Masquerade (Russell)
  • Sugar (Kirk)
  • Los Angeles Negro Chorus (Kirk / Turrentine)
  • Steppin' into Beauty (Kirk)
  • The Christmas Song (Tormé / Wells)
  • Bagpipe Melody (Kirk)
  • Mary McLeod (Bethune)
  • Bright Moments (Barkan / Kirk)
  • Lyriconon (Kirk)
  • A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie / Paparelli)
  • J. Griff's Blues (Kirk)
Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real;
  • Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real (Kirk)
  • I Loves You, Porgy (Gershwin)
  • Make Me a Pallet on the Floor (Traditional)
  • Hey Babepips (Kirk)
  • In a Mellow Tone (Ellington)
  • Summertime (Gershwin)
  • Dorthaan's Walk (Kirk)
  • Watergate Blues (Heath)
Related releases

The music on the collection was originally released on;

  • The Inflated Tear, Roland Kirk, 1967
  • Left and Right, Roland Kirk, 1968
  • Blacknuss, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 1971
  • Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 1971
  • The Case of the 3 Sided Dream In Audio Color, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 1975
  • Other Folks Music, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 1976
  • Kirkatron, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 1976
  • Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 1977
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