Late Night Music Club with Rahsaan Roland Kirk
By Stella Barkwell Wednesday Oct 28, 2009 7:00pmAfter the intro, Kirk feels around for the mikes, to make sure they’re in the right place, and starts playing both saxophones slung around his neck. During this tune, he remembers a few of his favorite things for a few moments, like a seemingly random thought that pops up in the middle of a conversation. At the end, he’s gone full blown and his saxophones sound like a stylized warning siren.
In addition to Rahsaan Roland Kirk playing a variety of saxophones, flutes and whistles, McCoy Tyner was limited to playing one piano, Stanley Clarke stayed with one bass throughout the performance, and Lenny White rounded out the rhythm section on drums.
Here, Kirk shows us how it’s done on Burt Bacharach’s ‘I Say a Little Prayer,’ made mainstream by the talented Miss Dionne Warwick and made soulful by the also talented Miss Aretha Franklin.
No one beats Kirk’s bling. I mean, it’s woodwinds and whistles.
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Kirk is one of the greatest performers I ever saw, and I have seen just about everyone - Stones, Floyd, Springsteen and many more. But that one show at the Village Vanguard in 1973 is still in my top 10. Bright Moments indeed!
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Thanks a bunch for this. Way better than some Auto-Tune pretend music.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk is brilliant! Simply outstanding!
Thank you, Stella!
"humanity has blown its chance to live in a world of peace and harmony."
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Thanks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enjkGjRxjkU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_0UE7wjFYA
Yowsah!! I've never seen anything like it, Evet.
This man was truly amazing!
The Byrds vs. The Beatles- Nowhere To Turn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW6MWLOoRJ8&fe...
Very nice. Thanks, lafin!
get yourself a copy of "the three sided dream in audio color" perhaps the greatest concept record ever.
That brought back wonderful memories of hearing Kirk when I was at Emory U. in Atlanta many, many years ago.
I saw him my senior year in H.S. at the Village Vanguard,
I was blown away, I was just beginning to try and get some
jazz chops together on my sax, just before college,
here he was playing 3 of them.... soulful ballads
and political commentary... went into a rap about
B L A C K N U S S , loved every minute of it...
met his wife years later doing a live radio broadcast...
Saw Roland Kirk once, 72, 3 or 4 I think, Oakland Jazz All Star show, Oakland Coliseum.
Wow.
But this clip! Tyner, Clarke, and White? Insane.
Great pick, and thanks so much Stella!
Wow!
for the awesome Dionne and Aretha versions of I Say A Little Prayer. Truly fine.
The LNMC tonight was just fantastic.
Adieu for now. Sweet dreams to all.
John Denver-- Bells of Rhymney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHZgIlYSgiA
wtf
wow
Rahsaan was a great player and a better man. Like Pynchon's McKlintock Sphere, Kirk played all the notes that bird missed and he played them on two or three horns at once. I saw him play in 1975 in a small club in Ithaca, NY and after his horn stopped he went on for quite some time on the state of the world in general and the music business in particular. There will never be another Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
Bird never missed notes in his professional career. If you know anything about jazz, you will understand that Kirk and Bird both stand alone in their musical interpretations and styles. Bird was mostly a lyrical (melodic) player. Whereas, Kirk was modal and dissonant.
He's also a master of circular breathing. He can play all that without a single pause.
An amazing talent for sure, but in what way was that "I Say a Little Prayer?" Even a jazz interpretation has to have some basis in the original tune to play off of. This has not one note in common with the Bacharach song.
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