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I've never understood why this guy isn't acclaimed.
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03-28-2024 11:05 PM
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Great musician, try this one....
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Originally Posted by wintermoon
Is that Chick Corea not doing anything?
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Originally Posted by A. Kingstone
a true mold breaker, there certainly will never be another RRK......
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Originally Posted by A. Kingstone
Saw him at Keystone Korner in San Francisco, he was a one man horn section, played lead and accompaniment at the same time - mindblowing!
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He most certainly is in my house. There will never be another.
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This is worth watching...
The Case of the Three Sided Dream (2014) - IMDb
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With a totally stellar lineup, his solo at Mingus's Carnage hall concert stands out.
He'd tour the college circuits and his concerts always featured a Q&A from the stage during intermission. His answers were always frank and he didn't hold his punches.
Once someone asked about his playing after the stroke that took the use of one of his arms. He answered "I had a stroke. Now get off my case."
Another time someone asked his thoughts of Hendrix. I was totally surprised by his response "Jimi and I played together. Jimi was a beautiful cat."
Check out Rahsaan's solo on C Jam blues. He follows George Adams who really takes the blues to the edge (this lineup is like the history of jazz on one stage). Kirk has the follow up solo (about 9:30) and has the last word. His solo was two minutes without stopping for a breath. Playing two horns at once at the end of the collective jam...
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I love Rahsaan. Great music with a lot of humor. I just read that his performance on the Ed Sullivan Show was supposed to be a mellow cover of a Stevie Wonder song and then that - live for millions of viewers:
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Can't have too much RRK
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I thought he was acclaimed? He's one of the most interesting of all the avant garde style players IMO. He offers something even to the rudimentary listener that can be accessed. A RK record was some of the first jazz I heard and was immediately drawn to it because it is simultaneously forward thinking while keeping elements of the blues in there. A great artist!
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Howard Rees told me of Kirk playing at the Colonial in Toronto and there was an obnoxious drunk blathering on while Kirk was soloing. Kirk gets off the stage, wades through the tables, blind and still blowing, gets to the bar and puts the drunk in a headlock and finished his solo.
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I'm a big fan and saw him back in the day at the Village Vanguard in NY. I was amazed by his circular breathing technique and playing nose flute. I even named my cat after him!
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One of my life-long best friends and dearest musical allies named his son after him in '73.
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Many years ago I saw an amazing triple bill concert.
Pharoah Sanders playing in his African music meets jazz vibe.
Alice Coltrane playing piano, harp and organ playing in a spiritual jazz vibe.
Included in this band was John McLaughlin playing a Gibson archtop (this was when the 2nd Mahavishnu Orchestra record had jus come out.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk played all standards and blues including a version of the Entertainer by Eubie Blake which was heavily overplayed on the radio at that time. Although his repertoire was the least new and exciting on the surface, his energy and individual musical persona transcended to the highest levels. An interesting lesson learned by me that day.
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Originally Posted by RobbieAG
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Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull borrowed his flute playing technique from Rahsaan, and they covered "Serenade to a Cuckoo" on their first album, but it was juvenile compared to Rahsaan's playing.
Rahsaan plays flute only on the album, "I Talk with The Spirits," on which Serenade is the first track:
I Talk with the Spirits - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Roland Kirk
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I swear I saw him on Johnny Carson or something like that ages ago. If I remember right he was wearing bright yellow, rubber bib-overalls. Like the things road-work guys wear on rainy days. I dug the look, but I figured it might've been protection from the saliva spilling out of all the horns & flutes & whistles he wore.
Anybody know anything about that episode? I googlerized it to death but no luck. Was it a dream?
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Originally Posted by Jimmy blue note
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Yeah he's overlooked and for a large part marginalized, even while he was alive. He had a stroke and there was some notice but not a big notice.
I was at Berklee 4 years, took plenty of classes including survey classes and not ONCE was he even mentioned, especially in analysis. He just didn't exist in the educational scheme of things.
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Rahsaan was amazing! The general public has no clue about him but musicians know! I got the low down from a fellow employee at the car wash where I worked at age 17.
Last edited by AndyV; 03-29-2024 at 04:04 PM.
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MIchael Angelo Batio has said many times that he was the inspriration for...
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Originally Posted by wintermoon
I was friends with a multi instrumentalist who was part of the Roland Kirk Vibration Society (or whatever it was called), and they used to go to all the TV talk and variety shows and disrupt them, complaining about the lack of jazz on television back then. Dick Cavett actually let RRK come up onstage and voice his opinion, instead of just getting them ejected by security, like all the other shows, and it resulted in having an all-star band of Mingus RRK and others have a huge jam session on one of the shows. I can't even imagine that happening today!
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Originally Posted by Jimmy blue note
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Originally Posted by sgcim
Mingus wound up getting a Guggenheim fellowship out of it.
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