Rashaan Roland Kirk. "Say a Little Prayer for You"

[55hz]

A lot of talking in the beginning of the clip. It's crazy, weird, and I like it.

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[55hz]

and the crickets...I figured.

[Astronome]

I love Rahsaan Roland Kirk.. Check out the album I talk with the Spirits if you can find it..
rahsaan on Flute. its heavenly music..
3 sided dream is another favorite..
Volunteered Slavery is yet another fantastic album..

[lhallam]

Went to a seminar where he and Pharaoh Sanders spoke. Very good.

[GOLDENSTRAT]

I have this concret on dvd and the whole thing is very cool. This is my favorite song on the dvd, too. If only he had more arms .....
fred

[eliot1025]

Beautiful! Thanks for posting that. I've got to get some more of his music.

[tsar nicholas]

Kirk, man. One of the pantheon of exploratory music. I put him up there with Monk and Sun Ra and Mingus and James Brown. Simply remarkable vision and never-imitated skill.

[Thinsocks]

Went to a seminar where he and Pharaoh Sanders spoke. Very good.

That must have been something else!

[Scott Miller]

Huge fan here.

Saturday night, I sang a song consisting of one of his rant-poems set to a Bo Diddly beat:

Clickety-clack clickety-clack
Won't someone bring the spirit back

He's one of my main influences, artistically, in music and in painting. I drove all over the bay area looking for the Kirk/Hibbler LP, finally found it for a bunch of dough. It's on CD now.

[NashSG]

I got like 10 of them, but you can't go wrong with any Raashan Roland Kirk. Those jazz guys from that time and back are just crazy talented.

Kirk is about the only horn player you can find that would do tunes harmonizing with himself on 2 or 3 horns at once. I think some would say it is a gimmick, but man it sounded cool. Check out The Inflated Tear.

Mr. Kirk also shows up on some Mingus records like Oh Yeah and At Carnegie Hall which are both good listens. (But then again so is everything Charles Mingus did is really worth hearing.)

[Strung Up]

and the crickets...I figured.

Have your crickets call my crickets. Thanks for posting, nothing like a little Kirk to loosen up my musical perspective.

[Lucidology]

Loved him ...

[Carlo]

Theme for the Eulipions is my favorite.

Love Rahsaan.

[Satchmo]

Roland Kirk was indeed a monster player. Nobody else could combine playing totally out with such melodic sweetness. I had a bunch of his LPs back in the olden days.

Check out 'Gula Matari' from Quincy Jones' "Walking in Space" disc. All these heavy studio/jazz greats take solos that range from cool to hot then Roland comes in on his solo and sounds like a freight train barreling down at 100 mph with air horns blasting. There was a lot of great playing on that album but Kirk's solo stands out in my memory to this day.

Roland's influence lived on in the Charlie Hunter/Will Bernard band - T.J. Kirk.

[55hz]

I Love T.J. Kirk!

[Chrome Dinette]

Thanks for posting, love it.