Search results for "Rahsaan Roland Kirk"

Roland Kirk: Our Love Is Here To Stay (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 17, 08

As quickly as some critics saw three saxophones around Roland Kirk's neck and howled gimmickry, was as quickly as Kir...

Roland Kirk with Jack McDuff: The Skaters Waltz (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music October 17, 08

A year after he recorded Introducing Roland Kirk and just months before he participated in Charles Mingus's Oh Yeah s...

Roland Kirk: Cabin In The Sky (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 17, 08

Roland Kirk spent 1961 and 1962 developing his craft by performing with some of jazz's finest players, from Jack McDu...

Rahsaan Roland Kirk: From Bechet, Byas, and Fats (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 14, 09

Jaki supplies strong comping throughout this record, Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s fantastic Rip, Rig and Panic. On this trac...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JASON MORAN SELECTS 12 CLASSIC JAKI BYARD TRACKS

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Bright Moments (live) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

Rahsaan Roland Kirk ranks among the finest soloists of his generation. But when you bought one of his records you ne...

Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Ain't No Sunshine (Rating: 79/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

At his best, Rahsaan Roland Kirk was one of the most exciting instrumentalists of his generation. I still recall a n...

Woody Shaw: Rahsaan's Run (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

Woody Shaw re-recorded this up-tempo minor blues, dedicated to the great Rahsaan Roland Kirk, on his first studio dat...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BRIAN LYNCH SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL WOODY SHAW TRACKS

Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Roland Kirk: Slippery, Hippery, Flippery (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 15, 08

"Some of the sounds I made with my horn. The rhythm section was playing free. Some of the tape sounds I got arou...

Roland Kirk: You Did It, You Did It (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Among the portable pawnshop of strange instruments slung around Roland Kirk's neck was an ordinary transverse flute. ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL JAZZ FLUTE PERFORMANCES

"The flute," flutist Bud Shank informed historian Ted Gioia in 1988, "is a stupid instrument to be playing jazz music...

Roland Kirk: A Quote From Clifford Brown (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music October 17, 08

I Talk with the Spirits is Roland Kirk's only all-flute recording, aside from the occasional cuckoo clock or mus...

Roland Kirk: No Tonic Prez (aka No Tonic Press) (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music August 31, 08

As the song's creator states, this blues-based form is an extension of a Lester Young riff that has no "tonic," or cl...

Roland Kirk: Alfie (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

Yet another great movie theme from my youth evoking melancholy and ennui addressed by one of the great musicians/char...

Roland Kirk: Volunteered Slavery (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

As the man who breathed fire into the eclectic jazz scene of the late 1960s, Kirk stood out by using a multitude of s...

Charles Mingus: C Jam Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 28, 09

Jazz composers usually bring their most polished and ambitious scores when they are invited to play at Carnegie Hall....

Roy Haynes: Snap Crackle (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 01, 09

In the late 1950s and '60s, Roy Haynes rededicated himself to the New York freelance scene. He took a walk on the wil...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ROY HAYNES

The century mark is a uniquely exciting time in the development of a major musical style. History is unearthed, co...

Quincy Jones: Soul Bossa Nova (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 17, 08

Surprise! The opening theme song to the Austin Powers trilogy wasn't composed specifically for everybody's favorite h...

Charles Mingus: Ecclusiastics (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

Kirk’s tenure with Mingus lasted only a few months, but the relationship was sympathetic and yielded a classic record...

Charles Mingus: Eat That Chicken (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

Many 1950s jazz modernists considered such forebears as Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller old hat. Not Charles M...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ FOR THE BIRDS

It's only fitting. Since birds inspire us with their songs, composers return the favor, dedicating music in every gen...

Charles Mingus: Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

The threat of nuclear annihilation hung over the Space Age like a millennial migraine the morning after 100 consecuti...

Sonny Rollins, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Lennie Tristano on DVD posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 06, 09

Thomas Cunniffe is an erudite commentator on matters jazzy, and our resident expert on the many jazz DVDs coming...

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