Domino [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered]

Rahsaan Roland Kirk | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 14, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1962
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000050J60
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #189,350 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Domino

2. Meeting on Termini's Corner

3. Time

4. Lament

5. A Stritch in Time

6. 3-In-1 Without the Oil

7. Get Out of Town

8. Rolando

9. I Believe in You

10. E.D.

11. Where Monk and Mingus Live/Let's Call This

12. Domino [Alternate Version]

13. I Didn't Know What Time It Was

14. I Didn't Know What Time It Was

15. I Didn't Know What Time It Was

16. Someone to Watch over Me [Breakdown Take][Excerpt]

17. Someone to Watch over Me

18. Termini's Corner

19. Termini's Corner [Breakdown Take][Excerpt]

20. Termini's Corner

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Rah...No foolin'!, November 22, 2000

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David S. Minjares (Montebello, CA. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Domino (Audio CD)

I love "Domino", Rahsaan Roland Kirk's great 1962 album. Recorded duriung his early period with Mercury Records, Rah extends his voice even further than his previous album "We Free Kings" and starts to exhibit more humor through his playing and interpretations of originals and standards. And the man cooks! His multi-reed playing is astonishing! Yet, what could be taken as showy or novel, is some of the most melodic, lyrical and swinging music around. And the company! Herbie Hancock, Andrew Hill, Wynton Kelly, Roy Haynes, etcetera, is very fluid and challenging.

Of course, there's the classic first versions of loved Kirk staples like the title track, "Meeting On Termini's Corner", "A Stritch In Time", "Three In One Without the Oil" and great takes on "J.J. Johnson's "Lament", "I Didn't Know What Time It Was", "Someone To Watch Over Me" and so much more. At over 77 minutes long, this is well-worth the bucks!

Be glad that this album is now easily available (with PLENTY of extra tracks, too!!). Rah was one of the best musicians and the most most natural to grace jazz and 20th Century music. Grab it without two thoughts! Go....

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Domino-Rahsaan Roland Kirk, July 5, 2006

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J. Nichols "Johnnyhendrix" (South Glens Falls,New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Domino (Audio CD)

Awesome CD,some earlier works that were missing from my collection. Excellent reissue.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The beginning of Kirk's real innovations, June 20, 2009

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Nobody important - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Domino (Audio CD)

This is the first album on which Kirk started to really push the boundaries of jazz in ways other than the multiple-horn trick. While the saxophone was always his base, Kirk plays plenty of flute, manzello, stritch and nose flute on this one, and what is more impressive is that he didn't just try to force each instrument to fit some preconceived traditional bop phrasing. He alternated between instruments because sometimes one horn is better suited to the specific phrasing he wanted to use than another. This album, then, is the beginning of Roland Kirk's truly eclectic approach to jazz, drawing openly on multiple traditions, breaking them down and putting them back together again in interesting, and what were then new ways. He could play swing, bop, cool, avant-guarde, or whatever he wanted, but what makes this album so interesting is that he didn't just play a hard bop piece, then a "cool" piece, and so on. He would mix and match elements within the context of the same piece in unexpected ways, which would later become his trademark. This album shows how he got started with that approach. It is probably not a stretch to suggest that the experience of playing on this album would help Herbie Hancock and Andrew Hill clarify their own ideas, which were still forming at the time (1962), and it is difficult to see how this would have remained as cohesive without a drummer like Roy Haynes on board.