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Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Brotherman In The Fatherland

Read "Brotherman In The Fatherland" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


If there's any doubt left about Rahsaan Roland Kirk's brilliance, then this newly issued and previously unreleased live recording provides yet more evidence of his talents. Culled from tapes of his band's 1972 performance at Hamburg, Germany's Funkhaus, these sides present Kirk's all-encompassing approach to jazz. Asymmetrical combining free-form, pop-jazz and dabs of world music, the ...

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Brotherman in the Fatherland

Read "Brotherman in the Fatherland" reviewed by Mike Perciaccante


Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a master whose genius had to be seen to be believed. His live performances were legendary. Unfortunately Kirk left us in 1977; although we can never truly experience his magic live, we can still hear the electricity of his live performances. Brotherman in the Fatherland is Hyena Records' third Kirk ...

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Ornette Coleman Trio / Sound???

Label: EFORFILMS
Released: 2004
Track listing: David, Moffett & Ornette - A Film By Dick Fontaine (1966); Sound?? - A Film By Dick Fontaine (1967);

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Enter the Mowo!

Label: Hyena Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Chick a Boom Boom Boom; Only the Shadow Knows; Right Now; Shamma Lamma Ding Dong; Ill Take the Woods; Salted Fatback; Move; Thats Whats Happenin Tonight; On and On; Blackbird; Float; Collection II.

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Bright Moments: The Life & Legacy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Read "Bright Moments: The Life & Legacy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk" reviewed by Bob Jacobson


John Kruth Welcome Rain Publishers ISBN: 1566491053 Seven years ago at a jam session in Washington, D.C.'s Twins Lounge, the house band pianist called Rahsaan Roland Kirk's “Bright Moments". To his dismay, none of the four tenor sax players, who had probably memorized hundreds of songs between them, knew this ...

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Compliments of the Mysterious Phantom

Label: Hyena Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Passion Dance; My One And Only Love; Rahspeak #1; Fly Town Nose Blues; Volunteered Slavery; Rahspeak #2; Bright Moments; Old Rugged Cross; Blacknuss; Freaks For The Festivals; Rahspeak #3.

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Compliments of the Mysterious Phantom

Read "Compliments of the Mysterious Phantom" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


If Sun Ra was jazz music's Timothy Leary, then Rahsaan Roland Kirk was its Elijah. Kirk, jazz music's most iconoclastic character, was also one of its most gifted. Once dismissed as a circus sideshow, he has seen his popularity, as well as his influence, steadily increase over the past twenty years. Kirk has ...

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Roland Kirk's Finest Hour

Label: Verve Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Stompin' Grounds; Blue Rol; Serenade To A Cuckoo; Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year; Ecclusiastics; When The Sun Comes Out; Gifts And Messages; I Believe In You; My Ship; Half A Triple; Once In A While; No Tonic Press; Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith; E.D.;

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Separate But Equal

Label: 32 Records
Released: 1999


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