We Free Kings

Infobox Album
Name = We Free Kings
Type = Album
Artist = Roland Kirk


Released = 1961
Recorded = August 16, 1961 - August 17, 1961
Genre = Jazz
Length = 38:40
Label = Mercury
Producer =
Reviews =
*All Music Guide Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gvfixq85ldke link]
Last album = "Kirk's Work" (1961)
This album = "We Free Kings" (1961)
Next album = "Domino" (1962)for the Band, see We Free Kings (Band)

"We Free Kings" is a 1961 LP by jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk. It sees the group working through a set of bluesy post-bop numbers, including a highly regarded version of Charlie Parker's "Blues for Alice".Planer, Lindsay, [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gvfixq85ldke All Music Guide review] ] The title track, a Kirk composition, is a variation on the Christmas carol "We Three Kings".

Track listing

"All compositions by Kirk except where noted."
#"Three for the Festival" – 3:10
#"Moon Song" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) – 4:23
#"A Sack Full of Soul" – 4:40
#"The Haunted Melody" – 3:38
#"Blues for Alice" (Charlie Parker) – 4:08
#"We Free Kings" – 4:46
#"You Did It, You Did It" – 2:29
#"Some Kind of Love" – 6:11
#"My Delight" – 4:28

CD editions of the album include an alternate take of "Blues for Alice".

Personnel

*Roland Kirk — saxophone, flute, vocals
*Richard Wyands — piano (3-5, 9)
*Art Davis — bass (3-5, 9)
*Charlie Persip — drums (3-5, 9)
*Hank Jones — piano (1-2, 6-8)
*Wendell Marshall — bass (1-2, 6-8)

References