[JPL] Roland Kirk

[Eric Jackson]

Phillip Greenlief wrote:
>
> Len Dobbin
>  
> PG:
> That makes a LOT of sense. Byas' bluesy lyricism is much closer to the
> language of Roland Kirk than Hawkins. I have a nice photo taken of Byas
> talking to Monk after a performance in Den Hague - the photographer, who
> is Dutch lives out here now and has given me several of his photographs
> - my favorite is Eric Dolphy rehearsing for the last date with a very
> young Han Bennik right beside him.

I'm not sure why you won't call the man Rahsaan. Obviously that's what 
he wanted be called. I do know because I saw it happen that he got very 
upset with some people for refusing to call him Rahsaan. He considered 
it disrespectful.


Eric Jackson
WGBH Boston



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