[JPL] Roland Kirk corrected version

[Eric Jackson]

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> Phillip Greenlief wrote:
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>> I'm really glad Roland Kirk is still getting props.
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> This summer at the Newport Jazz Festival, Steve Turre and others are 
> performing the music of Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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>> 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.
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> The CD you are talking about is called Out of the Afternoon. I think it 
> was recorded around 1961.
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> I heard Roy Haynes Saturday night at the Montreal Jazz Festival. 
> Incredible. A strong performance from the whole band but 81 year old 
> Roy was amazing.
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> Eric Jackson
> WGBH Boston
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>> Phillip Greenlief
>> c/o Evander Music
>> PO Box 22158 Oakland, CA
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>> www.evandermusic.com
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jazzproglist-bounces at jazzweek.com
>> [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,
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>> 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,
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>> Bobby Jackson
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>> From: jazzproglist-bounces at jazzweek.com
>> [mailto:jazzproglist-bounces at jazzweek.com] On Behalf Of Arturo
>> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 7:53 PM
>> To: jazzproglist at jazzweek. com
>> 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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