D:none of it really, tho I guess some of the trad-bop stuff is kinda pedestrian (Domino, Kirk's Work, etc.)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure Rahsaan is one of the best people you could play for people who are into rock and pop etc, but not fond of the jazz thing. It never sounds like "jazz" in that "Giant Steps" sort of way, but just like some musicians having tons of fun blowing their lungs out. Come to think of it, he often seems to be mentioned by those guys who generally rarely like much other jazz than Eric Dolphy.
Only dud part as I see it is that party-whistle thing he loves so much. He ends a solo and up goes that thing and "Whoiiiiii!"
Search: Mingus' "Oh Yeah." It's a riot.
― Øystein (Øystein), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.thirteen.org/soul/2009/02/06/october-4-1972/
― Wrinkles, I'll See You On the Other Side (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 22 May 2009 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i knew he could play three horns in concert but did not know he could do his eyebrows at the same time. this looks great. some real nice volunteered slavery era bits on youtube if anyone's ever bored.
― corps of discovery (schlump), Friday, 22 May 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
that poor, poor chair
seriously great, though. the three horns at once thing was never a gimmick, but getting to see it is a little beyond
― Milton Parker, Friday, 22 May 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
is that Bobby Womack in the audience at 24:29 ???
― Wrinkles, I'll See You On the Other Side (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 22 May 2009 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
― am0n, Friday, 22 May 2009 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
wish i could find the live video of him in europe somewhere and at one point he offers coke to the audience out of one of his pouches
― am0n, Friday, 22 May 2009 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
So I say search the "One Man Twins: Live at Montreaux Jazz Festival" video. He's draped in robes, scarves and horns, incense burning like crazy on stage. Any to anyone who's seen this video -- is he snorting cocaine about halfway through?!? He pulls out a spoon w/ a powder on it and takes a toot, and then offers some to people in the audience (he's blind so he just kind of holds the spoon in front of himself and feels around -- very weird.)
― Mark, Sunday, August 11, 2002 8:00 PM
^ yeah this
― am0n, Friday, 22 May 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
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― am0n, Friday, 22 May 2009 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
this article tipped me off to some records i didn't know about and reignited a recent rrk fixation for me.
inflated tear and rip rig and panic were the first two i really got into on a friend's recommendation. natural black inventions: root strata was a find that totally blew me away. solo kirk just wailing away and getting down. the first cut always knocks me on my ass.
http://www.blastitude.com/27/#rahsaan
really like the author's take on kirk's catalog. it seems to stem from intimate listens and a real love of kirk's music.
― sknybrg, Saturday, 23 May 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
search
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzXZwN7axng
― dave barry (absolutely clean glasses), Friday, 15 July 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
I think this has been posted before, probably by me, but, alongside the playing three horns at once and lung busting circular breathing here we get to see Roland bang a gong, blow a conch and destroy a chair. This is a somewhat exciting performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btCyMMViUIQ
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Friday, 5 January 2018 11:36 (six years ago) link
https://austintayeshus.blogspot.com/2018/12/what-are-spectral-projections.html
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 14 December 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
Listening to Roy Haynes 'Out of the Afternoon' for the first time in awhile, incredible album.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Thursday, 25 May 2023 20:18 (ten months ago) link
Let's see, Roy Haynes, Archie Shepp, Charles Mingus, not a band really. On the Ed Sullivan Show too! He could have been bigger than the Beatles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRO1W5twBes
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 4 March 2024 14:57 (one month ago) link
... not a bad band, that is.
Roy Haynes, 98 and still alive! He was repeatedly mentioned in a book I was reading and everyone else referenced playing with him are all long gone.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 4 March 2024 15:07 (one month ago) link
Pretty sure he's also the last living person to have played with Charlie Parker.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 4 March 2024 15:09 (one month ago) link
yeah he must be the last Bird player standing, he is a year younger than Max Roach would have been.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 4 March 2024 15:15 (one month ago) link
made my day, thank you so much
― fpsa, Monday, 4 March 2024 19:54 (one month ago) link
wow!
― bendy, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 20:02 (one month ago) link
Such a cool presentation of breaking it down for a mass audience, but also throwing down
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 20:05 (one month ago) link
wow that's wild for Ed Sullivan! great great stuff
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 08:44 (one month ago) link