[JPL] Roland Kirk

[Eric Jackson]

Phillip Greenlief wrote:

> 
> I'm really glad Roland Kirk is still getting props.

This summer at the Newport Jazz Festival, Steve Turre and others are 
performing the music of Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

> 
> I just found a great Roy Hanes CD that features him - somehow I never
> found it before now. It's got Tommy Flannagan and Henry Grimes on board
> as well. A nice session and really good to hear Roland Kirk playing
> really strong without some of the tricks that nearly achieved gimmick
> status later in his career. It must be from the Rip, Rig and Panic era
> of his career.


The CD you are talking about is called Out of the Afternoon. I think it 
was recorded around 1961.

I heard Roy Haynes Saturday night at the Montreal Jazz Festival. 
Incredible. A strong performance from the whole band but 81 year old 
year was amazing.


Eric Jackson
WGBH Boston

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> Phillip Greenlief
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> [mailto:jazzproglist-bounces at jazzweek.com] On Behalf Of Jackson, Bobby
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 9:41 AM
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> Subject: RE: [JPL] Talking about flugelists....
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> Peeps,
> 
> There are plans this year for a scholarship to be given to a deserving
> music student in the name of Rahsaan Roland Kirk, in his hometown of
> Columbus, Ohio.  A local patron of the arts in that area has committed
> money that will ear marked each year to commemorate the brilliant
> miracle worker that was Rahsaan Roland Kirk.  
> 
> I pulled together a twelve minute profile of Kirk last August that
> commemorates Kirk and talks about this honor.  The voices in the package
> include the legendary Joel Dorn, Columbus, OH reporter Jack Marchbanks,
> Kirk's widow Dorthaan and none other than Rahsaan himself.  
> 
> We will air it again in early August and do a follow up report with the
> first recipient and others that are involved in the RR Kirk Scholarship
> fund.  
> 
> Aloha,
> 
> Bobby Jackson
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> [mailto:jazzproglist-bounces at jazzweek.com] On Behalf Of Arturo
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 7:53 PM
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> Subject: [JPL] Talking about flugelists....
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> 
> There are many fine flugelists or is flugelhornists? flugelhorn players?
> anyhooo, I always enjoy hearing the under rated multi-instrumentalist
> Ira
> Sullivan blow his flugel. It never ceases to amaze me how easily he
> changes
> from a reed to a horn or the reverse in a single song while maintaining
> proficiency on both insturments that require different emboucheres,
> fingering and mindset. Ira recorded with Roland Kirk in the beginning of
> Kirk's career, today I was reading the liners of a new 2-disc release by
> LoneHill Jazz(what a fine re-issue label), Roland Kirk Quartet with Tete
> Montoliu, Copenhagen concert-1963 & Newport Jazz '64, and I was smiling
> at
> the many quotes attributed to Roland and later on as Rahsaan, 2 in
> particular hit home, "The Creator has blessed me with the ability to
> play, 2
> or 3 lines simultaneously and to play non-stop, but everything I've been
> able to get together has usually been considered a gimmick or a trick,
> this
> bugs me. People have found it easy to dismiss the miracle which is my
> contribution to the saxophone instead of trying to deal with what's
> really
> involved in it". The other one as Rahsaan is toooooo funnieeeee, "When I
> die
> I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated,
> put in
> a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they get
> something out of it"  Well, I have sure have gotten a lot of inspiration
> from Kirk the man,  overcoming all obstacles to reach his goals and not
> letting any physical handicap be an excuse. His life story should be
> required reading in high schools across the land.
> 
> Arturo
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