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Other Folks' Music 
Studio album by Rahsaan Roland Kirk Released 1976 Recorded March, 1976 Genre Jazz Label Atlantic Producer Joel Dorn Rahsaan Roland Kirk chronology The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color
(1975)Other Folks' Music
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(1976)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 
[1]Other Folks' Music is an album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk featuring performances by Kirk with Richard Williams, Kermit Moore, Gloria Agostini, Trudy Pitts, Hilton Ruiz, Henry Mattathias Pearson, Roy Haynes, Sonny Brown, Arthur Jenkins and Joe Habad Texidor recorded in March 1976.[2]
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states "Other Folks' Music is perhaps his most dizzying and troubling recording. Meant to be both a tribute and a pointer for the next move in modern black music, Other Folks' Music is, when all is said and done, a very private altar adorned with much of Kirk's personal iconography... in all of Kirk's moods and segues, his usually indelible mark of inseparability — the trace that says that this is all one music and we are all one people — is missing here, and the listener can feel the separation between tracks, and sometimes inside the tracks themselves. The music is still topnotch, but that nagging ghost of isolation on Other Folks' Music can still haunt the listener".[3]
Track listing
- All compositions by Rahsaan Roland Kirk except as indicated.
- "Water for Robeson and Williams" (Rahsaan Roland Kirk) - 3:48
- "That's All" (Alan Brandt, Bob Haymes) - 7:39
- "Donna Lee" (Charlie Parker) - 4:10
- "Simone" (Frank Foster) - 9:05
- "Anysha" (Trudy Pitts) - 8:13
- "Samba Kwa Mwanamke Mweusi" (Henry Mattathias Pearson) - 6:53
- "Arrival" (Hilton Ruiz) - 7:09
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- Recorded at Regent Sound Studios, NYC, March, 1976
Personnel
- Roland Kirk: tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, clarinet, flute, reed trumpet, harmonica miscellaneous instruments, arranger
- Richard Williams: trumpet
- Kermit Moore: cello
- Gloria Agostini: harp
- Trudy Pitts: piano, electric piano, arranger
- Hilton Ruiz: piano arranger
- Henry Mattathias Pearson: basss, arranger
- Roy Haynes: drums
- Sonny Brown: drums
- Arthur Jenkins, Joe Habad Texidor: percussion
References
- ^ Allmusic Review
- ^ Rahsaan Roland Kirk discography accessed 20 August 2009
- ^ Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed 20 August 2009.
Categories:- 1976 albums
- Atlantic Records albums
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk albums
- Albums produced by Joel Dorn
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