Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real
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Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real is the final album recorded by jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk featuring performances by Kirk with string section and orchestra.[2] It was recorded in 1977 following a stroke which left him partially paralysed.[3]
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states "The final album Rahsaan Roland Kirk ever recorded remains one of his finest. Post-stroke, Kirk struggled with his conception of the music he was trying to make. Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real is the payoff... The all-inclusive vision Kirk has of a music embraces all emotions and attitudes and leaves no one outside the door. This is Kirk's Black Classical Music, and it is fully realized on this final track and album".[4]
Track listing
- All compositions by Rahsaan Roland Kirk except as indicated
- "Boogie Woogie String Along for Real" - 8:52
- "I Loves You, Porgy" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward) - 1:51
- "Make Me a Pallet on the Floor" (Traditional) - 7:14
- "Hey Babebips" - 5:10
- "In a Mellow Tone" (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) - 6:15
- "Summertime" (Gershwin, Gershwin, Heyward) - 1:40
- "Dorthaan's Walk" - 7:08
- "Watergate Blues" (Percy Heath) - 6:35
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- Recorded at Regent Sound Studios, NYC, 1977
Personnel
- Roland Kirk: tenor saxophone, harmonica, electric kalimba, clarinet, flute, vocals
- Steve Turre: trombone (tracks (1, 4, 7 & 8)
- Hilton Ruiz: keyboards (tracks 4, 7 & 8)
- Phil Bowler: bass (tracks 1, 4, 7 & 8)
- Sonny Brown: drums (tracks 1, 4, 7 & 8)
- Percy Heath: cello (tracks 4 & 8)
- Sammy Price: piano (tracks 1-3, 5 & 6)
- Tiny Grimes: guitar (tracks 2, 3, 5 & 6)
- Arvell Shaw: bass (tracks 2, 3, 5 & 6)
- Gifford McDonald: drums (tracks 2, 3, 5 & 6)
- William S. Fischer: arranger, electric piano (track 1)
- Eddie Preston: trumpet (track 1)
- Jimmy Buffington: french horn (track 1)
- Harold Kohon, Sanford Allen, Kathryn Kienke, Regis Iandiorio, Tony Posk, Yoko Matsuo, Doreen Callender: violin (track 1)
- Selwart Clarke, Linda Lawrence, Julien Barber: viola (track 1)
- Eugene Moye, Jonathan Abramowitz, Charles Fambrough: cello (track 1)
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