Roland Kirk – We Free Kings

Roland Kirk

Roland Kirk –We Free Kings

1962

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Added September 30 2026

Version Information

Labels
Mercury
Verve Records
UMe
Catalog numbers
SR 60679
602475813002
Original year
1962
Version year
2025
Region
Worldwide
Format

1 x Vinyl
LP
Album
Reissue
Stereo

Version notes

Black labels with silver text.

HI-FInformation
This session was recorded monaurally and stereophonically at Nola Penthouse Studios in New York City, with Tommy Nola at the controls and Jack Tracy supervising. Rhythm section microphones used were a Neuman U 48 on piano, RCA 44 on the bass, and a Telefunken U 47 on drums, A Neuman KM 54 was used on Roland Kirk's horns, with an Electro Voice 667 suspended above it at forehead level to pick up his flute. The entire session was recorded at 15 inches per second on Ampez tape recorders.

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Recorded Aug. 16 and 17, 1961, at Nola Recording Studios, New York City. Personnel on asterisked tracks: Roland Kirk, tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, and flute; Richard Wyands, piano; Art Davis, bass; Charlie Persip, drums, Personnel on remaining tracks: Kirk; Hank Jones, piano; Wendell Marshall, bass; Persip, drums.

Tracklist

A1.Three For The Festival 3:05
A2.Moon Song 4:17
A3.A Sack Full Of Soul 4:35
A4.The Haunted Melody 3:36
A5.Blues For Alice 4:04
B1.We Free Kings 4:45
B2.You Dit It, You Did It 2:24
B3.Some Kind Of Love 6:06
B4.My Delight 4:26

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