Here Comes the Whistleman

{{Infobox album

| name = Here Comes the Whistleman

| type = live

| artist = Roland Kirk

| cover = Here Comes the Whistleman.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Release date|1967|02}}

| recorded = March 14, 1965

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length =

| label = Atlantic

| producer = Roland Kirk, Joel Dorn

| prev_title = Rip, Rig and Panic

| prev_year = 1965

| next_title = Slightly Latin

| next_year = 1965

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}

|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=828}}

}}

Here Comes the Whistleman is a live album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk recorded in March 1965 at Atlantic Studios in New York, and released in February 1967.{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LCgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=billboard+1967+%22whistleman%22&pg=PA4 |magazine=Billboard |page=4 |title=New Sales Peak Registered by Atl.-Atco With 2-Month Gusher |date=1967-03-18 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |language=en}} It was his first release on the Atlantic label and features performances by Kirk with pianists Lonnie Liston Smith and Jaki Byard, bassist Major Holley and drummer Charles Crosby.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/roland-kirk/catalog/#atlantic-lp-3007 Rahsaan Roland Kirk discography] accessed 11 August 2009