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Saxophonist Rahsaan Barber Renews His Creative Energy, Ambition With 'Six Words,' Releasing September 6 On Jazz Music City
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Saxophonist Rahsaan Barber greets the arrival of a new phase in his musical career with the September 6 release Six Words on Jazz Music City Records. The album features Barber’s eponymous, eight-part suite—his first—performed by his sextet Everyday Magic, which he formed with the help of a grant from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (where Barber is an assistant professor of jazz studies and saxophone). The “six words” of the title refer to a statement Barber once ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Rahsaan Roland Kirk's birthday today!
Kirk was born Ronald Theodore Kirk in Columbus, Ohio, but felt compelled by a dream to transpose two letters in his first name to make Roland. In 1970, Kirk added “Rahsaan" to his name. Preferring to lead his own groups, Kirk rarely performed as a sideman, though he did record with arranger Quincy Jones, Roy Haynes and had especially notable stints with Charles Mingus. He played the lead flute and ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Rahsaan Roland Kirk's birthday today!
Kirk was born Ronald Theodore Kirk in Columbus, Ohio, but felt compelled by a dream to transpose two letters in his first name to make Roland. In 1970, Kirk added “Rahsaan" to his name. Preferring to lead his own groups, Kirk rarely performed as a sideman, though he did record with arranger Quincy Jones, Roy Haynes and had especially notable stints with Charles Mingus. He played the lead flute and ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Rahsaan Roland Kirk's birthday today!
Kirk was born Ronald Theodore Kirk in Columbus, Ohio, but felt compelled by a dream to transpose two letters in his first name to make Roland. In 1970, Kirk added “Rahsaan" to his name. Preferring to lead his own groups, Kirk rarely performed as a sideman, though he did record with arranger Quincy Jones, Roy Haynes and had especially notable stints with Charles Mingus. He played the lead flute and ...
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Multi-Saxophonist / Composer Rahsaan Barber Presents Expansive Musical Vision On 'Mosaic,' Due April 9 From Jazz Music City Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
As gifted a composer as he is an instrumentalist, tenor/alto/baritone saxophonist Rahsaan Barber offers a panoply of his scintillating originals on Jazz Music City’s April 9 release Mosaic. The double album features Barber working with two separate frontline partners—his twin brother Roland Barber on trombone, Nathan Warner on trumpet, and the rhythm section of pianist Matt Endahl, bassist Jack Aylor, and drummer Derrek Phillips—as he explores 15 of his straight-ahead jazz compositions. Double-disc recordings are often associated with sprawl and ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Rahsaan Roland Kirk's birthday today!
Kirk was born Ronald Theodore Kirk in Columbus, Ohio, but felt compelled by a dream to transpose two letters in his first name to make Roland. In 1970, Kirk added “Rahsaan" to his name. Preferring to lead his own groups, Kirk rarely performed as a sideman, though he did record with arranger Quincy Jones, Roy Haynes and had especially notable stints with Charles Mingus. He played the lead flute and ...
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Videos: Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Rahsaan Roland Kirk was one of the purest and most fascinating jazz artists and composers of the post-war period. Blind from birth, he was a soulful and experimental and romantic multi-instrumentalist who defied his own physical limitations to become the very essence of jazz in all its free but gifted glory. Here are five clips of Kirk in action... Here's Kirk playing Stevie Wonder's My Cherie Amour in Paris in 1972... Here's Making Love After Hours in 1967, with pianist ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Rahsaan Roland Kirk's birthday today!
Kirk was born Ronald Theodore Kirk in Columbus, Ohio, but felt compelled by a dream to transpose two letters in his first name to make Roland. In 1970, Kirk added “Rahsaan" to his name. Preferring to lead his own groups, Kirk rarely performed as a sideman, though he did record with arranger Quincy Jones, Roy Haynes and had especially notable stints with Charles Mingus. He played the lead flute and ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Rahsaan Roland Kirk's birthday today!
Kirk was born Ronald Theodore Kirk in Columbus, Ohio, but felt compelled by a dream to transpose two letters in his first name to make Roland. In 1970, Kirk added “Rahsaan" to his name. Preferring to lead his own groups, Kirk rarely performed as a sideman, though he did record with arranger Quincy Jones, Roy Haynes and had especially notable stints with Charles Mingus. He played the lead flute and ...
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Nashville Jazz Crusader Rahsaan Barber's 3rd CD As A Leader, "The Music In The Night," Due Nov. 3
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Rahsaan Barber’s years of activity as a performer, producer, presenter, educator, and most recently DJ in his native Nashville have established him as an integral part of the city’s vibrant jazz scene. In fact, Barber named his record label and concert production company Jazz Music City to make the point that there’s more to America’s “Music City” than the Grand Ole Opry. With the release on November 3 of The Music in the Night, he also ...
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