Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 081227140724
EAN: 0081227140724
ASIN: B00000332G
Release Date: 1993-09-28
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Label: Rhino / Wea Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 081227140724 EAN: 0081227140724 ASIN: B00000332G Release Date: 1993-09-28 |
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Rahsaan's Rippin' Rock , Gospel & Jazz Revue.......2002-03-05
Music-historical footnote: Rahsaan on side one of this album & on a couple other records attempted an acoustic jazz-rock fusion that had nothing to do with Miles's later electric jazz or Ornette's harmolodic funk (both of which I love). Duke Ellington attempted a fusion similar to Rahsaan's a few times in the mid-late-'60s and '70s. The style never caught on, but it really works when Rahsaan & Duke do it. The great rocking beats with the brilliant individualism of great jazz soloists.
4 1/2* Great Intro to Kirk!.......2001-09-06
The title track has a nice goopy Mingus-style groove with the choir voices echoing the sax at the end. (Kirk played with Mingus, by the way). One surprise here is the surprising, somewhat inexplicable, interpolation of "Hey Jude" towards the end. Next up is the beautiful "Spirits Up Above": This spiritual begins with the chorus upfront, then switches abruptly to a Spanish-tinged horn solo with chorus in background. This one cooks! Track 4 is similar in feeling, with a great driving bass by Vernon Martin.
"My Cherie Amour" is...that "My Cherie Amour! (Stevie Wonder)." What is this strange thing? A pleasant enough excursion, but suspiciously commercial! (Surprise your friends...play this song first, then program your CD player to the very different track 1. Soulful flute solo, but on the whole, much too lightweight and a strange, unpretty vocal by Kirk. Unlike this song, the Bacharach pop/soul tune "I Say A Little Prayer" has a more interesting treatment, with a Latin beat and more texture. Kirk cuts loose on this, quoting "A Love Supreme" and then blowing some effective avante-garde over brooding bass (again, excellent work by V. Martin) and drums.
Garage Jazz: Tracks 5-7 are Kirk's "One Ton" sandwiched between an introduction and some closing remarks to the crowd at Newport. This is a very post-bop blues, with a little 50's rock thrown in along with Batman theme riffs. This is garage jazz...simple loud bass...then a rapid going everywhere performance by Kirk. Yes, it's a little showy, and he vocalizes with the flute more noticeably than Ian Anderson does, but it winds up being a beautiful noise, and far better than Tull. Nice explosions of sound and a wonderfully simple/sloppy "garage band" rhythm section. This is music for the people.
Kirk's three-part "Tribute to Coltrane" (another great with whom Kirk played) includes "Lush Life," "Afro-Blue," and "Bessie's Blues." "Lush Life" is taken at a slow pace and is indeed evocative of Trane. There are soaring notes and colors, and a tremendous range of notes. Kirk again finds a searching, spiritual form through the music, before settling into the main melody; the bass matched perfectly to Kirk's tones and mood. The other two sections are intense and swinging--excellent material. Kirk emulates the cascading sheets of sound and is superb. Long but interesting and well-played bass solo!
"Three for the Festival" opens with great drumming by Jimmy Hopps. Kirk intensely vocalizes over his flute, which may not be to everyone's liking, but I think it's creative and fits the overall sound very well. `Three' ends with an overly long, flashy drum solo, but it must have pleased the audience with Kirk repeatedly yelling out the drummer's name, a la James Brown.
A great introduction to Kirk newcomers, and an opportunity to hear Kirk both live and in the studio. Despite a hint of commercialism, this is well worth getting. Liner notes by Ed Williams, and personnel listed for each track. Recommended!
Positive vibrations in jazz.......2001-08-06
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