Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real is the final album recorded by jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk featuring performances by Kirk with string section and orchestra.[3] It was recorded following a stroke which left him partially paralysed.[4]

Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real
Studio album by Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Released	1977
Recorded	July 18, 1975-1976
Genre	Jazz
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Joel Dorn
Rahsaan Roland Kirk chronology
Kirkatron (1977) Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real (1977)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[2]

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states "The final album Rahsaan Roland Kirk ever recorded remains one of his finest. Post-stroke, Kirk struggled with his conception of the music he was trying to make. Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real is the payoff... The all-inclusive vision Kirk has of a music embraces all emotions and attitudes and leaves no one outside the door. This is Kirk's Black Classical Music, and it is fully realized on this final track and album".[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Rahsaan Roland Kirk except as indicated

1. "Boogie Woogie String Along for Real" - 8:52
2. "I Loves You, Porgy" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward) - 1:51
3. "Make Me a Pallet on the Floor" (Traditional) - 7:14
4. "Hey Babebips" - 5:10
5. "In a Mellow Tone" (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) - 6:15
6. "Summertime" (Gershwin, Gershwin, Heyward) - 1:40
7. "Dorthaan's Walk" - 7:08
8. "Watergate Blues" (Percy Heath) - 6:35

• • Recorded at Regent Sound Studios, NYC, 1977

Personnel

• Roland Kirk: tenor saxophone, harmonica, electric kalimba, clarinet, flute, vocals
• Steve Turre: trombone (tracks (1, 4, 7 & 8)
• Hilton Ruiz: keyboards (tracks 4, 7 & 8)
• Phil Bowler: bass (tracks 1, 4, 7 & 8)
• Sonny Brown: drums (tracks 1, 4, 7 & 8)
• Percy Heath: cello (tracks 4 & 8)
• Sammy Price: piano (tracks 1-3, 5 & 6)
• Tiny Grimes: guitar (tracks 2, 3, 5 & 6)
• Arvell Shaw: bass (tracks 2, 3, 5 & 6)
• Gifford McDonald: drums (tracks 2, 3, 5 & 6)
• William S. Fischer: arranger, electric piano (track 1)
• Eddie Preston: trumpet (track 1)
• Jimmy Buffington: french horn (track 1)
• Harold Kohon, Sanford Allen, Kathryn Kienke, Regis Iandiorio, Tony Posk, Yoko Matsuo, Doreen Callender: violin (track 1)
• Selwart Clarke, Linda Lawrence, Julien Barber: viola (track 1)
• Eugene Moye, Jonathan Abramowitz, Charles Fambrough: cello (track 1)

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