Kirk's Work
Kirk's Work (also reissued as Funk Underneath) is an album by Roland Kirk with Jack McDuff. Prestige Records released the album in 1961, with Original Jazz Classics[1] and Concord Music Group issuing subsequent re-releases.
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| Released | 1961 | |||
| Recorded | July 11, 1961 | |||
| Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 33:02 | |||
| Label | Prestige | |||
| Producer | Esmond Edwards (supervision) | |||
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Rudy Van Gelder engineered the recording on July 11, 1961 at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Esmond Edwards supervised the session. Van Gelder remastered the recording for the Concord 2007 re-release.
Critical reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |  ()[1] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |  [2] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings describes Kirk's Work as "a largely forgotten Kirk album, but one which generally deserves the classic reissue billing."[1] Ron Wynn has described the album as "a fine reissue of Kirk in a soul-jazz and mainstream vein."[4] Allmusic notes a "swinging R&B vibe pervasive throughout the album," judging that "while certainly not the best in his catalog, it is a touchstone album that captures the early soulful Rahsaan Roland Kirk."[5]
Track listing
All music is composed by Roland Kirk, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Three for Dizzy" | 5:11 | |
| 2. | "Makin' Whoopee" | Donaldson–Kahn | 5:07 |
| 3. | "Funk Underneath" | 6:15 | |
| 4. | "Kirk's Work" | 3:54 | |
| 5. | "Doin' the Sixty-Eight" | 4:20 | |
| 6. | "Too Late Now" | Lerner–Lane | 3:52 |
| 7. | "Skater's Waltz" | Charles Emile Waldteufel (arr. Kirk) | 4:23 |
Personnel
- Roland Kirk – tenor saxophone, manzello, strich [sic], flute, siren
- Jack McDuff – Hammond organ
- Joe Benjamin – bass
- Arthur Taylor – drums
References
- Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 827. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
- Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 119. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- Wynn, Ron (1994), Ron Wynn (ed.), All Music Guide to Jazz, M. Erlewine, V. Bogdanov, San Francisco: Miller Freeman, p. 404, ISBN 0-87930-308-5
- Planer, Lindsay. Kirk's Work at AllMusic. Retrieved February 11, 2011.