Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Radio Free Rahsaan

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Radio Free Rahsaan        

1973 Intermedia Studios, Newbury Street, Boston, MA     
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - deejay

These 8 one hour programs were not aired at the time they were recorded. In 1984 Dorthaan Kirk and Steve Robinson produced this series with funding from the National Public Radio's Satellite Program Development Fund. The 8 programs were broadcast on WBGO-FM and other NPR radio stations on consecutive Sundays beginning October 7, 1984.

 

Radio Free Rahsaan Program #1
Sweet Emma - Unidentified Title            
Sonny Rollins - Striver's Row            
Paul Blackburn - Listening To Sonny Rollins At the Five Spot            
Thad Jones and Mel Lewis - Don't Ever Leave Me            
Big Maybelle - Gossip Blues            
Duke Ellington - You're Just an Old Antidisestablishmentarianismist
Paul Robeson - Every Time I Feel the Spirit            
Clifford Brown - You're a Lucky Guy            
Art Farmer - Unidentified Title            
Tuskegee Institute Choir - Deep River            
Art Tatum - Tiger Rag            
McCoy Tyner - Unidentified Title             

 

Radio Free Rahsaan Program #2
Sippi Wallace - Women Be Wise            
Sun Ra - Discipline 27-II - Outer Spaceways Incorporated              
Lester Young - Hello Babe            
Ben Webster - Drop Me Off In Harlem            
Dinah Washington - Darn That Dream            
Sarah Vaughan - You're Not the Kind            
Eureka Brass Band - Take Your Burden To the Lord            
Cecil Taylor - D Trad, That's What            
'Philly' Joe Jones - Mo Jo            

 

Radio Free Rahsaan Program #3
McCoy Tyner - Unidentified Title            
Henry "Red" Allen - There's A House In Harlem For Sale            
Charlie Shavers - Nature Boy            
Tuskegee Institute Choir - Ezekiel Saw the Wheel            
Paul Robeson - Water Boy            
John Coltrane - Chim Chim Cheree            
Sidney Bechet - Petite Fleur            
Billie Holiday - Detour Ahead            
Betty Carter - Ego            
Thelonious Monk - Solitude            
Art Tatum - Limehouse Blues            

 

Radio Free Rahsaan Program #4
Duke Ellington - Perdido            
Jaki Byard - Evidence            
King Pleasure - Sometimes I'm Happy            
Nina Simone - Mr. Bojangles            
Unidentified Title            
Charlie Parker - Mohawk            
Buck & Bubbles - I Got the Number            
Joe Henderson - Blue Bossa            
Von Freeman - Portrait Of John Young            
Abbey Lincoln - African Lady    
Eric Dolphy - Love Me

 

Radio Free Rahsaan Program #5
Illinois Jacquet - The King            
Bertha Hill - Low Land Blues            
Jean and Doug Carn - A Love Supreme-Acknowledgement            
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme-Acknowledgement            
Melvin Van Peebles - Chippin            
Duke Ellington - Kinda Dukish/Rockin' In Rhythm            
Aretha Franklin - Day Dreaming            
Sarah Vaughan - Run To Me             

 

Radio Free Rahsaan Program #6
Eric Dolphy - Jitterbug Waltz            
Fats Waller - Jitterbug Waltz            
Thad Jones and Mel Lewis with Ruth Brown - Be Anything (But Be Mine)            
The Ravens - Summertime            
Rudolph Johnson - Water Bearer            
Gil Scott-Heron - Evolution (And Flashback)            
Louis Armstrong - Fireworks            
Fats Waller - The Joint is Jumpin'            
Bud Powell - Buttercup            
Chick Webb - I Got Rhythm            
Charles Mingus - Passions of a Man

 

Radio Free Rahsaan Program #7
Charles Mingus - Folk Forms No. 1            
Milt Jackson - SKJ            
Billy Eckstine - Everything Happens To Me            
Music Inc. - Drought            
Lord Buckley - The Train            
Shirley Caesar - Down By the Riverside            
Eureka Brass Band - Bye and Bye            
Remarks By Reverend C.L. Franklin            
Aretha Franklin - Climbing Higher Mountains            

 

Radio Free Rahsaan Program #8
Thad Jones and Mel Lewis - Once Around            
Chick Webb - Unidentified Title            
John Coltrane - Dearly Beloved            
Lester Young - Something To Remember You By            
Billie Holiday - Some Other Spring            
Roy Haynes - Some Other Spring            
The Ravens - Mahzel (Means Good Luck)             
Andy and the Bey Sisters - Sister Sadie            
Michael White - Journey Of The Black Star            
Django Reinhardt - Unidentified Title            
James Moody - Disappointed            
King Pleasure - Don't Get Scared

 

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Edited November 1, 2019 by l p