Rahsaan Roland Kirk - tenor sax, stritch, manzello; Ron Burton - piano; Henry "Pete" Pearson - bass; Robert Shy - drums; Art Perry - percussion. Ellis Haizlip - host
We were in a terrible place, but we were moving in the right direction. We stopped moving, and if you aren't moving forward you are going backwards. Here we are in a worse place. Still, listening to the band makes we want to move again.
my man was deep. had the knowledge and was a master at the craft. thank you Rahsaan Roland kirk truly A Gifted Man And Knowledge Was Sharp Plantation Earth Damn Gotta Feel That one.
Usually, as a theatre audience leaves a performance they make at least some noise as they exit. When in the early 70's I left the Festival Hall London along with the rest of the audience there was no noise except the shuffling of feet. Why? Everyone was literally stunned into silence after the Tornado. Kirk wore an orange hat resembling a tea cozy, and a high viz orange one-piece suit. 😲
Wow!! This is GOLD! I can't believe this finally surfaced, what a joy. I've long been a huge fan of his Montreux performance of the same year, with the same band plus percussionist and guide Habao. So seeing this and a recently uploaded France performance of the same year just kill me in the best way.
For real though! I started listening to jazz about 16 years ago or so, and Rahsaan was one of the first handful of artists I discovered. I remember how badly I would have _killed_ to see actual *video* of Roland playing. I mean, it's pretty extreme stuff to imagine a man who could play two or three saxophones at the same time *musically* , or play a recorder with his freaking nose! Unbelievable!
My mind was blown when I heard Roland Kirk for the first time, which was the fantastic album ‘Prepare Thyself to Witness a Miracle’ [Highly recommended it]
Jimi was kinda the Coltrane of the guitar in terms of reaching and connecting with the people, Rahsaan Roland Kirk was his own Force, his own thing. Up there with the Giants Rahsaan Roland Kirk was the Rahsaan Roland Kirk of the saxophone! Bright Moments!
The undefeated! The unconquerable! Wunderkind! As He described Himself, " a journey agent". Ears and expressions light years beyond, "plantation earth". The Infinate Majik! Like Leadbelly, the two of them absorbed all of the music which preceded them and surrounded them. And with verve, delivered the listener and fed em'. Spiritually that is. "Prepare thyself to deal with a miracle"
First time I saw Rahsaan I was hooked! A friend recommended Charlie Parker and I wasnt ready. He pulled up a Rahsaan record ' Return of the 5000 lb man? I bought it and subsequently all the Rahsaan I couldn't afford in college ! I learned Giant Steps etc from. That album. Bright Moments, other Folks, KIRKATRON , VIBRATION SOCIETY, BLACKNUSS FROM THE NET. MEETING IF THE TIMES WITH AL HIBNER. VOLUNTEERED SLAVERY..... ON AN ON
Thanks! A brilliant performance by one of the greatest musicians/performers ever! The playing of multiple instruments, nor his jaw-dropping circular breathing were never gimmicks. His compositions, improvisations, and bandleading skills are superb! I had never heard of his interest in Edgar Varese. Afterwards, I heard snatches of fellow Varese fan, Frank Zappa's "vocabulary." The whole band is tight! That half-size bass really cuts through the mix! The "Floor Boss" must've disrespected him, placing a chair on the stage. Rashaan wasn't havin' it! Calling out Billy Gibbons for ripping off RRK's "Cross" rap, word-for-word, pause-for-pause, for "Fool for your Stockings." Billy G's guitar playing is mostly "channeled" from better players. also.
Rahsaan was one seriously badd musician. Daring. Fearless. Loving and understanding his blackness. And it's a shame that so little of that is in jazz anymore. That destruction of that chair on TV was out of this world! An Impromptu situation, but meaningful...
David Evans imo it‘s about leaving,the in a way artificial „concert situation „ destroing the comfortable „i play you listen and pay“ thing not the chair! we should ask ourselfs how much risk is involved in a „ classical“ jazz conzert everything is on the save side he was a show man but just as a side effect his main thing was sound he had a vision😎
Now you must know that there's all kind of crosses.. there's all kind of crosses you must deal with in life. We don't really have enough time to run down all the crosses that might cross you up, but if we can be any way of helping to tell you about some of the crosses, then you'll know some of the crosses that you've probably dealt with and just bring it back out of your mind again. Now, you might say 'I don't have no cross I have to deal with, he must be crazy.' Well if you lay down across someone tonight, you're putting yourself in a hell of a cross. ... You know what I mean? And for those that will not be laying down across someone, that have to lay down by themselves tonight, sometimes you'll get awful cross, 'cause you be lonely. You know what I mean? And if you go home tonight, 'cause somebody is taking care of your cross, you'll really be cross, see? So it really ain't all it's got nothing to do with, you know, the cross that you're trying to associate with, because we all have a cross that we must bear. Now there's the green cross, the white cross, the yellow cross, the black cross, the double cross, the criss cross, the wrong cross, the heavy cross, the music cross, the love cross, the old guy president cross, the old governor cross, the jail cross, the smoker cross, the cocaine cross.. All kind a crosses. I know y'all know some crosses you can shout out, let us know that you got a cross that you must bear. Ain't y'all got some crosses out there? What kind of crosses you got? Tell me about them! N'uh huh. See what I mean? We all have a cross. But now a cross ain't supposed to cross you up. You supposed to go on and get across the cross that you wanna get across and go on across that cross, make that cross do whatever you wanna do, to make you get yourself across, and once you done got across that cross, you supposed to look back across that cross and go on and deal with it and leave it alone. Yeah. I tell you, I tell you, the cross get's awful heavy. I tell you people been sleeping on Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Rahsaan Roland Kirk is capable to be on any qualified television show. Rahsaan Roland Kirk is capable to be and to stand up with anyone that calls himself a philosiphier. Because I know how to philosiphy in my own way. There's all kind a ways to philosiphy. Oh yeah. Yes. Yes. And not only Rahsaan Roland Kirk, there's other musicians that know how to philosiphy and deal with the situation that has been sleep on, people don't even want us on television, on prime shows, on beautiful black shows that we could be able to hold our own on, instead on the panel with all those other people that are supposed to be so hip, but they sit up there so dried up and they be judging and passing judgement on people, and it's a drag that they judge such beautiful people out of their life. So we must realize this, and if you can realize that this is a cross that they must deal with one day in their life, they will have to come on and take this cross in their hands and they might be awful cross is what I'm saying, because sometime when the cross gets heavy you get awful cross and you don't even know how to get across that cross, and when you look back across that cross, you mad and cross at yourself because you didn't even know how to deal with the cross that you got cross at.
With tears in my eyes, I relive the magic that was Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Thanks for the worlds you gave me.
A tornado of sound was da man and then some he was very intense and played smooth and at times played like a blizzard of sounds yo
We were in a terrible place, but we were moving in the right direction. We stopped moving, and if you aren't moving forward you are going backwards. Here we are in a worse place. Still, listening to the band makes we want to move again.
my man was deep. had the knowledge and was a master at the craft. thank you Rahsaan Roland kirk truly A Gifted Man And Knowledge Was Sharp Plantation Earth Damn Gotta Feel That one.
Usually, as a theatre audience leaves a performance they make at least some noise as they exit. When in the early 70's I left the Festival Hall London along with the rest of the audience there was no noise except the shuffling of feet. Why? Everyone was literally stunned into silence after the Tornado. Kirk wore an orange hat resembling a tea cozy, and a high viz orange one-piece suit. 😲
If only I had a time-machine; the very 1st ‘trip’ back in time I would take would be going to a Rahsaan Roland Kirt concert.
Wow!! This is GOLD! I can't believe this finally surfaced, what a joy. I've long been a huge fan of his Montreux performance of the same year, with the same band plus percussionist and guide Habao. So seeing this and a recently uploaded France performance of the same year just kill me in the best way.
For real though! I started listening to jazz about 16 years ago or so, and Rahsaan was one of the first handful of artists I discovered. I remember how badly I would have _killed_ to see actual *video* of Roland playing. I mean, it's pretty extreme stuff to imagine a man who could play two or three saxophones at the same time *musically* , or play a recorder with his freaking nose! Unbelievable!
The most amazing blind visionary. Simply one of the most best. Supreme love for real. Talk about Real Talk....
Cheap Thrilll
he‘s not blind😎
ah you said it...
visionary!
*SUPREME MASTER INSTRUMENTALIST ! BRIGHT MOMENTS EVER ONWARD N UPWARDS* !!!! 😱😎🎷🎷🎷🎶🎺🎼🎹🎵🎸🎶🎻🎼🥁🎵🎤🎶💣😉✌️🇺🇸😍🌹
I played drums with Onzy Matthews, in Dallas Texas. He arranged some for Duke Ellington and Lou Rawls. I've always loved Roland Kirk
A truly unique human being. I've been a fan since the early 1970's.
My mind was blown when I heard Roland Kirk for the first time, which was the fantastic album ‘Prepare Thyself to Witness a Miracle’
[Highly recommended it]
The Jimi Hendrix of the Saxophone. period.
Jimi was kinda the Coltrane of the guitar in terms of reaching and connecting with the people, Rahsaan Roland Kirk was his own Force, his own thing. Up there with the Giants
Rahsaan Roland Kirk was the Rahsaan Roland Kirk of the saxophone!
Bright Moments!
@@klaus8456 Agree totally.
Brilliant Genius
the most exhuberant soloist of all time
Yes! Very well put.
The undefeated! The unconquerable! Wunderkind! As He described Himself, " a journey agent". Ears and expressions light years beyond, "plantation earth". The Infinate Majik! Like Leadbelly, the two of them absorbed all of the music which preceded them and surrounded them. And with verve, delivered the listener and fed em'. Spiritually that is.
"Prepare thyself to deal with a miracle"
Awesome- Thanks for sharing this! 🙌🎶
very good channel. thank you.
I love Rahsaan
RRK, so wonderful, music AND words. Activism. Disability awareness. 'what they call planet Earth, I call it plantation earth.'
The one and only Rasshan
First time I saw Rahsaan I was hooked! A friend recommended Charlie Parker and I wasnt ready. He pulled up a Rahsaan record ' Return of the 5000 lb man? I bought it and subsequently all the Rahsaan I couldn't afford in college ! I learned Giant Steps etc from. That album. Bright Moments, other Folks, KIRKATRON , VIBRATION SOCIETY, BLACKNUSS FROM THE NET. MEETING IF THE TIMES WITH AL HIBNER. VOLUNTEERED SLAVERY..... ON AN ON
Thanks! A brilliant performance by one of the greatest musicians/performers ever! The playing of multiple instruments, nor his jaw-dropping circular breathing were never gimmicks. His compositions, improvisations, and bandleading skills are superb! I had never heard of his interest in Edgar Varese. Afterwards, I heard snatches of fellow Varese fan, Frank Zappa's "vocabulary." The whole band is tight! That half-size bass really cuts through the mix! The "Floor Boss" must've disrespected him, placing a chair on the stage. Rashaan wasn't havin' it!
Calling out Billy Gibbons for ripping off RRK's "Cross" rap, word-for-word, pause-for-pause, for "Fool for your Stockings." Billy G's guitar playing is mostly "channeled" from better players. also.
THIS IS BEYOND AWESOME!!!
A black is a black panthers community partys underground anthems salutes to are brothers in black...... ................................A....x..
Awesome show. Wish I was alive to see it but I wasn't born til 9 years later!
That chair was not going down without a fight. 😂
Thanks so much for sharing this with us!!!
Excellent
Rahsaan was one seriously badd musician. Daring. Fearless. Loving and understanding his blackness. And it's a shame that so little of that is in jazz anymore. That destruction of that chair on TV was out of this world! An Impromptu situation, but meaningful...
I am with you completely as to his musicianship, but the chair destruction - what was that about ?
David Evans
imo it‘s about leaving,the
in a way artificial „concert situation „
destroing the comfortable „i play you listen and pay“ thing
not the chair!
we should ask ourselfs how much risk is involved in a „ classical“ jazz conzert
everything is on the save side
he was a show man
but just as a side effect
his main thing was sound
he had a vision😎
Yesterday is today Rahsaan.
salue and respect to a genius
awesome roland ✌️👍‼️
Damn these sound reminds me of manix tv shows. Late night. 70 s. Oh man. Ha
The world gone bad - this was the future now it's the past.
Yes, Creative Master Genius, his intellectual conceptual development and expression is heightened
Truer words have never been spoken.
well said
Fantastic!
Downtown Chevytown!
Amazing !!!!
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
thank you for this ~
I don’t play a wind instrument. 22:40 is a great example of circular breathing,isn’t it?
You are correct, sir!
Henrys good on bass but vernon Martin on bass w Rahsaan opened up a whole next level of energy and psychedelic possibilities 🎉
Funny is hell. Damn. Way to play.
Looks like HENDRIX setting his guitar ON FIRE!! 😂😂😂
Music @ 13:58 > introduction
A yes like a one man band......xxxxx....ok.........................A
Anyone wanna know the song at 14:37 it’s called Pedal Up
The song is called "Pedal Up"
Someone can write what he said at 27:06? please for subtitle?
Now you must know that there's all kind of crosses.. there's all kind of crosses you must deal with in life. We don't really have enough time to run down all the crosses that might cross you up, but if we can be any way of helping to tell you about some of the crosses, then you'll know some of the crosses that you've probably dealt with and just bring it back out of your mind again. Now, you might say 'I don't have no cross I have to deal with, he must be crazy.' Well if you lay down across someone tonight, you're putting yourself in a hell of a cross. ... You know what I mean? And for those that will not be laying down across someone, that have to lay down by themselves tonight, sometimes you'll get awful cross, 'cause you be lonely. You know what I mean? And if you go home tonight, 'cause somebody is taking care of your cross, you'll really be cross, see? So it really ain't all it's got nothing to do with, you know, the cross that you're trying to associate with, because we all have a cross that we must bear. Now there's the green cross, the white cross, the yellow cross, the black cross, the double cross, the criss cross, the wrong cross, the heavy cross, the music cross, the love cross, the old guy president cross, the old governor cross, the jail cross, the smoker cross, the cocaine cross.. All kind a crosses. I know y'all know some crosses you can shout out, let us know that you got a cross that you must bear. Ain't y'all got some crosses out there? What kind of crosses you got? Tell me about them! N'uh huh. See what I mean? We all have a cross. But now a cross ain't supposed to cross you up. You supposed to go on and get across the cross that you wanna get across and go on across that cross, make that cross do whatever you wanna do, to make you get yourself across, and once you done got across that cross, you supposed to look back across that cross and go on and deal with it and leave it alone. Yeah. I tell you, I tell you, the cross get's awful heavy. I tell you people been sleeping on Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Rahsaan Roland Kirk is capable to be on any qualified television show. Rahsaan Roland Kirk is capable to be and to stand up with anyone that calls himself a philosiphier. Because I know how to philosiphy in my own way. There's all kind a ways to philosiphy. Oh yeah. Yes. Yes. And not only Rahsaan Roland Kirk, there's other musicians that know how to philosiphy and deal with the situation that has been sleep on, people don't even want us on television, on prime shows, on beautiful black shows that we could be able to hold our own on, instead on the panel with all those other people that are supposed to be so hip, but they sit up there so dried up and they be judging and passing judgement on people, and it's a drag that they judge such beautiful people out of their life. So we must realize this, and if you can realize that this is a cross that they must deal with one day in their life, they will have to come on and take this cross in their hands and they might be awful cross is what I'm saying, because sometime when the cross gets heavy you get awful cross and you don't even know how to get across that cross, and when you look back across that cross, you mad and cross at yourself because you didn't even know how to deal with the cross that you got cross at.
@@northjerseydan1 thanks
northjerseydan1
thank you for this
@@northjerseydan1…it took a lot of love to transcribe that rap.Bright Moments to You 🐝🌹🌈
ain‘t that looking into the future
i think he saw beyond today
and we have not evolved like we should have
theres work to do
Was this on pbs
Yes
カｰクはパニｯクを引き起こす！
But if his blind ? How would you know the difference between blak or white ?? Hmm. Intresting
Because those are more than just colors. They are a state of mind and a culture.
@@BuddhaBites Right ✅️