We Free Kings is a studio album by the jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk, released on Mercury Records in January 1962.[1][2][3] His group works through a set of bluesy post-bop numbers, including a highly regarded version of Charlie Parker's "Blues for Alice".[5] The title track, a Kirk composition, is a variation on the Christmas carol "We Three Kings".
^ abEditorial Staff, Billboard (13 January 1962). "We Free Kings". Billboard Music Week. The Billboard Publishing Co. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
^ abEditorial Staff, Cash Box (20 January 1962). "Jazz Pick of the Week" (PDF). Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
^ abEditorial Staff, Cash Box (27 January 1962). "January Album Releases" (PDF). Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
^DownBeat: April 26, 1962 vol. 29, no. 9
^ abPlaner, Lindsay, AllMusic review
^R.L.M. (20 July 1963). "Roland Kirk: We Free Kings" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 123. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
^Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 119. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
^Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 827. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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