Tj Kirk

T.j. Kirk | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 8, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002MXV
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #250,069 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Soul Power

2. Teo

3. Bemsha Swing

4. Shuffle Boil/You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme Some Bucks and I'll ...

5. Volunteered Slavery

6. Serenade to a Cuckoo

7. Freaks for the Festival

8. Cold Sweat/Rip, Rip & Panic

9. Humph

10. Epistrophy

11. I Got to Move/In Walked Bud

12. Jackie-Ing

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wicked groovy funky-*ss sh*t, March 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Tj Kirk (Audio CD)

I never tire of listening to this album. Simply over-the-top funk, with great musicianship and style. This was my intro into Charlie Hunter's music, which is fantastic stuff. Even beyond the gimmick-appeal of Hunter's 8-string guitar (in which he holds down a bass line and hits the chords at the same time), you get masterful stuff. Listen to this album and groove to it. Then chew on this: NO OVERDUBS. That's right, folks: this stuff is organic.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars greatest guitar band that you've probably never heard about, July 18, 2006

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The Delite Rancher (Phoenix, Arizona) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tj Kirk (Audio CD)

J.K. Kirk does not stand for Captain T. James Kirk. That writen, the Enterprise's Science Officer could have easily filed this otherworldly adventure under cerebral, inventive, rockin', soulful, jazzy, funky and psychedelic. While these guys played the music of "T"helonious Monk, "J"ames Brown and Rahsaan Roland "Kirk," T.J. Kirk was no cover band. These luminaries took great music and reinvented it in a unique way. Three guitar players and a drummer may seem like stringed overkill, but these boys made it work in style. While Charlie Hunter, Will Bernard, John Schott and Scott Amendola have all gone onto lead successful careers, T.J. Kirk was greater than the sum total of its parts. Indeed, "T.J. Kirk" is better than 75% of Charlie Hunter's post T.J. Kirk career. Compared to its sequel "If Four Was One," this debut may be less dynamic but it rocks harder. "T.J. Kirk" probably deserves five stars but the purpose of rating is to sort products. While this is a great recording, the band's other two CDs are stronger. Listen to "T.J. Kirk" and discover the greatest guitar band that you've probably never heard about.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As the late Lester Bowie once said, "26,000 stars", November 7, 2001

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m_noland "m_noland" (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tj Kirk (Audio CD)

This is an absolutely, unbelievably, grotesquely underappreciated album. It ought to be a best seller. I totally indebted to the friend who gave it to me as a gift.

Four fine young musicians solve the chronic problem of weak original material by recording compositions at the interstice of jazz and R&B by Thelonious Monk, James Brown, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk (hence the name T.J. Kirk). The two guitars really mesh (Charlie Hunter is surreal) and they really get inside these compositions in a wonderful way (e.g. quoting JB in Monk's "Humph" and turning Kirk's "Volunteered Slavery" into reggae). Total funk workout.

One of the disks that I inevitably pack when heading off for desert islands. Give it to someone you love.