Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Moon Dance - Ballads and Soul '2016

Tracks list

Tracklist:

1. Our Love Is Here to Stay (04:52)
2. Moon Ray (06:41)
3. Three for Dizzy (05:14)
4. The Haunted Melody (03:38)
5. Fly Me to the Moon (06:41)
6. Time (03:12)
7. A Sack Full of Soul (04:38)
8. Funk Underneath (06:18)
9. Moon Song (That Wasn't Meant for Me) (04:22)
10. Some Other Spring (03:31)
11. You Did It, You Did It (02:29)
12. Doin' the Sixty-Eight (04:24)
13. Too Late Now (03:54)
14. Three for the Festival (03:09)
15. Soul Station (05:28)
16. Snap Crackle (04:11)
17. Our Waltz (04:54)


 moreKirk was born with sight, but became blind at the age of two. He started
playing the bugle and trumpet, then learned the clarinet and C-melody sax. Kirk
began playing tenor sax professionally in R&B bands at the age of 15. While a
teenager, he discovered the "manzello" and "stritch" -- the former, a modified
version of the saxello, which was itself a slightly curved variant of the B flat
soprano sax; the latter, a modified straight E flat alto. To these and other
instruments, Kirk began making his own improvements. He reshaped all three of
his saxes so that they could be played simultaneously; he'd play tenor with his
left hand, finger the manzello with his right, and sound a drone on the stritch,
for instance. Kirk's self-invented technique was in evidence from his first
recording, a 1956 R&B record called Triple Threat. By 1960 he had begun to
incorporate a siren whistle into his solos, and by '63 he had mastered circular
breathing, a technique that enabled him to play without pause for breath.

In his early 20s, Kirk worked in Louisville before moving to Chicago in 1960.
That year he made his second album, Introducing Roland Kirk, which featured
saxophonist/trumpeter Ira Sullivan. In 1961, Kirk toured Germany and spent three
months with Charles Mingus. From that point onward, Kirk mostly led his own
group, the Vibration Society, recording prolifically with a range of sidemen. In
the early '70s, Kirk became something of an activist; he led the "Jazz and
People's Movement," a group devoted to opening up new opportunities for jazz
musicians. The group adopted the tactic of interrupting tapings and broadcasts
of television and radio programs in protest of the small number of
African-American musicians employed by the networks and recording studios. In
the course of his career, Kirk brought many hitherto unused instruments to jazz.
In addition to the saxes, Kirk played the nose whistle, the piccolo, and the
harmonica; instruments of his own design included the "trumpophone" (a trumpet
with a soprano sax mouthpiece), and the "slidesophone" (a small trombone or
slide trumpet, also with a sax mouthpiece). Kirk suffered a paralyzing stroke in
1975, losing movement on one side of his body, but his homemade saxophone
technique allowed him to continue to play; beginning in 1976 and lasting until
his death a year later, Kirk played one-handed. © Chris Kelsey



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