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".

The assembled quartet provides an ample balance of bop and soul complements to Kirk's decidedly individual polyphonic performance style.

His inimitable writing and arranging techniques develop into some great originals, as well as personalize the chosen cover tunes.

With a nod to the contemporary performance style of John Coltrane, as well as a measure of his influences — most notably Clifford Brown and Sidney Bechet — Kirk maneuvers into and out of some inspiring situations".