{"id":2964254,"date":"2025-07-17T16:31:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/product\/roland-kirk-we-free-kings\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T04:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:10:22","slug":"roland-kirk-we-free-kings","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/product\/roland-kirk-we-free-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Roland Kirk: We Free Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Issued in a plastic bag with an &#8221;Acoustic Sounds Series&#8221; sticker on its front. Single pocket gatefold jacket with a non-labelled rice paper inner sleeve and a double-sided insert for the &#8221;Acoustic Sounds Series&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Black labels with silver text.<\/p>\n<p>[Back cover]<br \/>\nHI-FInformation<br \/>\nThis session was recorded monaurally and stereophonically at Nola Penthouse Studios in New York City, with Tommy Nola at the controls and Jack Tracy supervising. Rhythm section microphones used were a Neuman U 48 on piano, RCA 44 on the bass, and a Telefunken U 47 on drums. A Neuman KM 54 was used on Roland Kirk&#8217;s horns, with an Electro Voice 667 suspended above it at forehead level to pick up his flute. The entire session was recorded at 15 inches per second on Ampex tape recorders.<\/p>\n<p>\u273d<br \/>\nRecorded Aug. 16 and 17, 1961, at Nola Recording Studios, New York City. Personnel on asterisked tracks (A3 to A5, B4): Roland Kirk, tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, and flute; Richard Wyands, piano; Art Davis, bass; Charlie Persip, drums, Personnel on remaining tracks (A1, A2, B1 to B3): Kirk; Hank Jones, piano; Wendell Marshall, bass; Persip, drums.<\/p>\n<p>Reissue mastered and cut to lacquer by Matthew Lutthans, The Mastering Lab at QRP<\/p>\n<p>A Verve Records release; Originally released in 1962 on Mercury Records \u00a9 2025 UMG Recordings, Inc.<br \/>\nDistributed by Universal Music Enterprises, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>[Labels]<br \/>\nA Verve Records release; Originally released in 1962 on Mercury Records \u00a9 2025 UMG Recordings, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8221;Acoustic Sounds Series&#8221; insert]<br \/>\n\u00a9 2024 UMG Recordings, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8221;Acoustic Sounds Series&#8221; sticker]<br \/>\n\u2022 Mastered from the original analog tapes by top mastering engineers<br \/>\n\u2022 Manufactured at Quality Record Pressings (QRP) on 180 gram vinyl<br \/>\n\u2022 Tip-On gatefold sleeves printed on high-grade board<\/p>\n<p>Runouts are etched except &#8221;TML-M&#8221; is stamped.<\/p>\n<p>[Acoustic Sounds product page]<br \/>\nStoughton Printing gatefold old-style tip-on jackets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Condition: Mint (M)<\/p>\n<p>Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)<\/p>\n<p>Label: Mercury,Verve Records,UMe,Mercury<\/p>\n<p>Released: 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3158188,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[16],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2964254","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-jazz","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"taxable","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"mb":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/2964254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3158188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=2964254"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=2964254"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=2964254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}