******* Rashaan Roland Kirk  Reissue ********

Title: Simmer, Reduce, Garnish & Serve-The Warner Bros. Recordings
Label: Warner Archives/Warner Bros.
CD: 2-45811

Selections:
Lunatic Danza
Theme For The Eulipions
Sweet Georgia Brown
I'll Be Seeing You
Los Angeles Negro Chorus
Serenade To A Cuckoo
Bagpipe Medley
J. Griff's Blues
Mary McLeod Bethune
I Loves You Porgy
Hey Babebips
In A Mellow Tone
Dorthaan's Walk
Watergate Blues
Summertime
Thunder And Lightning Goodbye

Personnel: Rahsaan Roland Kirk, tenor saxophone, harmonica, flute, 
manzello, electric kalimba
Compilation Producer: Joel Dorn
Guests: Charles Persip, Sonny Brown, drums; Romeo Penque, baritone 
saxophone, oboe; Charles "Buster" Williams, Hilton Ruiz, Hank Jones, 
Sammy Price, piano; Milton Hinton, Mattathias Pearson, Arvell Shaw, 
Philip Bowler, bass; William Butler, "Tiny" Grimes, guitar; Bill Carney, 
Gifford McDonald, Sonny Brown, drums; Habao Texidor, Todd Barkan, 
percussion; Howard Johnson, tuba; Maeretha Stewart, vocal solo; Betty 
Neals, recitation; Fred Moore, washboard; Trudy Pitts, organ; Percy 
Heath, cello; Steve Turre, trombone

-- Rahsaan Roland Kirk was one of the most provocative instrumentalists 
in the history of jazz. Drawing on poetry, politics and the entire 
spectrum of musical history while playing a dizzying assortment of 
instruments-sometimes several at once-he created music whose free-ranging 
intelligence and unfettered expression have few equals. This Warner 
Archives disc is a definitive collection of Kirk's later work.
-- Simmer, Reduce, Garnish & Serve compiles the best from Kirk's three 
Warner Bros. albums-The Return Of The 5000 lb. Man (1976), Kirkatron 
(1977) and Boogie-Woogie String Along For Real (1978)-and adds two 
previously unreleased cuts: "Lunatic Danza" and "Thunder And Lightning 
Goodbye."
-- Both in Kirk's own compositions-like the expansive "Theme For The 
Eulipions" and "Dorthaan's Walk"-and in his dazzling deconstructions of 
Gershwin and Ellington standards, the material here presents a 
fascinating picture of a brilliant musical mind at work.
-- Kirk's Warner Bros. recordings were the last he made before his death. 
In his liner notes, producer Joel Dorn recounts some of the drama of the 
recording process as Kirk fought his way back from a debilitating stroke 
to create his final musical legacy.