Standing Eight

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

32 Jazz

Double CD release that brings together the last three Kirk Warner brothers albums. Trudy Pitts plays organ on one track of The Return of the 5000 Lb. Man and one track of Kirkatron.

Tracks

• Theme for the Eulipions (Kirk / Neals)
• Sweet Georgia Brown (Bernie / Casey / Pinkard)
• I'll Be Seeing You (Fain / Kahal)
• Loving You (Riperton / Rudolph)
• Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Kirk / Mingus)
• There Will Never Be Another You (Gordon / Warren)
• Giant Steps (Coltrane / Neals)
• Serenade to a Cuckoo (Kirk)
• This Masquerade (Russell)
• Sugar (Kirk / Turrentine)
• Los Angeles Negro Chorus
• Steppin' into Beauty (Kirk)
• The Christmas Song (Torme / Wells)
• Bagpipe Medley (Kirk)
• Mary McLeod Bethune
• Bright Moments (Kirk)
• Lyriconon (Kirk)
• A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie / Paparelli)
• J. Griff's Blues (Traditional)
• Boogie Woogie String Along for Real (Kirk)
• I Loves You, Porgy (Gershwin / Gershwin / Heyward)
• Make Me a Pallet on the Floor (Traditional)
• Hey Babebips (Kirk)
• In a Mellow Tone (Ellington / Gabler)
• Summertime (Gershwin / Gershwin / Heyward)
• Dorthaan's Walk (Kirk)
• Watergate Blues (Heath

Musicians on I'll Be Seeing You;

• Rahsaan Roland Kirk - tenor saxophone, manzillo, stritch
• Trudy Pitts - organ
• William Butler - guitar
• Bill Carney - drums

The music on the collection was originally released on;

• The Return of the 5000 Lb. Man, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 1976
• Kirkatron, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 1976
• Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 1977