S&D: Rashaan Roland Kirk

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.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzXZwN7axng

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

https://austintayeshus.blogspot.com/2018/12/what-are-spectral-projections.html

Listening to Roy Haynes 'Out of the Afternoon' for the first time in awhile, incredible album.

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

... 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.

Pretty sure he's also the last living person to have played with Charlie Parker.

yeah he must be the last Bird player standing, he is a year younger than Max Roach would have been.

made my day, thank you so much

wow!

Such a cool presentation of breaking it down for a mass audience, but also throwing down

wow that's wild for Ed Sullivan! great great stuff