Roland Kirk

• SIX-PANEL DIGIPACK

• DIGITALLY RERMASTERED

This edition presents two amazing quartet albums featuring multi-reedman Roland Kirk and pianist Horace Parlan: Gifts and Messages and I Talk with the Spirits. Those records constitute the two musicians’ only collaborative studio quartet albums ever. The second LP includes one of Kirk’s most iconic numbers: “Serenade to a Cuckoo”, a favorite of Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), who even recorded a version of it.

PERSONNEL:

• RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK - tenor sax, stritch, manzello, C-flute, African wood flute, nose flute & siren whistle
• HORACE PARLAN - piano (celeste on 6 & 18-19)

• Plus:
• ON TRACKS [1-10]: GIFTS & MESSAGES
• Michael Fleming - bass
• Steve Ellington - drums.
• Recorded in Los Angeles

• ON TRACKS [11-20]: I TALK WITH THE SPIRITS
• Michael Fleming - bass
• Walter Perkins - drums
• Bob Moses - vibraphone (on 15 & 17 only)
• Miss C. J. Albert - vocals (on 11 & 17 only).
• Recorded in New York City

TRACKS:

• 01 THE THING I LOVE
• 02 PETITE FLEUR
• 03 HIP CHOPS
• 04 GIFTS AND MESSAGES
• 05 VERTIGO RO
• 06 MARCH ON, SWAN LAKE
• 07 MY HEART AT THY SWEET VOICE
• 08 TEARS SENT BY YOU
• 09 WHERE DOES THE BLAME LIE?
• 10 BLUES FOR C & T
• 11 SERENADE TO A CUCKOO
• 12 WE’LL BE TOGETHER AGAIN/PEOPLE
• 13 A QUOTE FROM CLIFFORD BROW
• 14 TREES
• 15 FUGUE’N ALLUDIN’
• 16 THE BUSINESS AIN’T NOTHIN’ BUT THE BLUES
• 17 I TALK WITH THE SPIRITS
• 18 RUINED CASTLES
• 19 DJANGO
• 20 MY SHIP

• TOTAL TIME: 78:20 min.