Rahsaan Roland Kirk "The Inflated Tears & Haitian Fight Song" on The Ed Sullivan Show
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2 жыл бұрынRahsaan Roland Kirk "The Inflated Tears & Haitian Fight Song" on The Ed Sullivan Show, January 24, 1971. Subscribe now to never miss an update: ume.lnk.to/EdSullivanSubscribe
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@RO8YO 2 жыл бұрын
I was shocked that Rahsaan was on Ed Sullivan. Then he introduced Mingus and I literally yelled GTFO. Bright moments!
@jplew138 Жыл бұрын
MAN!!!
@monoped8437 Жыл бұрын
did they leave?
@tedstunes22 Жыл бұрын
All of these Legendary musicians who added to the idiom of "Jazz"music.
@DanJosephauthor 2 жыл бұрын
May I add that I never knew Charles Mingus was on the Ed Sullivan Show. That, friends, is the very definition of worlds colliding.
@jplew138 Жыл бұрын
Couldn't have said it better.
@tomhensley9692 4 ай бұрын
I actually remember seeing that long ago. Great to see (and hear) it again.
@andrea22213 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazed that US television broadcast this in 1971.
@MarkCathcart Жыл бұрын
They basically had to. Kirk was the leader of the Jazz and People's movement. It had bought the Merv Griffin and Dick Cavett shows to a standstill in a protest to get more black jazz musicians on TV. Kirk and Mark Davis wrote to the show and told them they were next on the list. It's interesting to note that neither on video, or in the description of this segment, all the black musicians were not listed/identified. Some things never change.,
@truebetold65 2 жыл бұрын
People, what you are witnessing, is a stage full of legends, each a van Gogh in his very own right.
@FlaviusMaximus1967 Жыл бұрын
Holy Crap what a line up!!!
@jplew138 Жыл бұрын
Never in a million years would I have thought that Roland Kirk was on the ED SULLIVAN SHOW. Much respect, Mr. Sullivan 👊
@pgroove163 6 ай бұрын
everyone was on Ed Sullivan
@2krandolph 3 ай бұрын
@@pgroove163 Agree. Practically everyone who was anyone was on the Ed Sullivan Show.
@kentduryea7109 3 ай бұрын
Why's that? He had Jim Morrison and the Doors on. Why not Kirk?
@tomsavage6687 Ай бұрын
Kirk told the producers he would play Ma Cherie Amour and other standards. That was the idea from Ed: here are some famous jazz artists for his audience. Kirk knew exactly what was going down and played real Black Classical music for those surbabanites... truth rights and justice to all... fire pon the american imperialist machine
@raymondnasiadka7185 Жыл бұрын
How is this man playing multiple instruments and most ‘artists’ today can’t play one well?!? I am so glad the algorithm blessed me with this. Now to travel down the rabbit hole…
@c.s.jackson7214 2 жыл бұрын
Roy Haynes still kicking butt at 96.
@thescatman5029 Ай бұрын
Saw him "at 89!" He was playing his * off......and mackin' to the ladies, at the same time!
@MusicEnthuZone Жыл бұрын
Yeah, they definitely gave this music respect. I was clapping like a seal when he introduced Shepp and Mingus. Pure fire.
@hnc52 2 жыл бұрын
Ed was the coolest uncool person ever!
@DanJosephauthor 2 жыл бұрын
You gotta give Ed credit for trying different things. Very outside the TV mainstream in 1971, but good!
@marvinmuonekejazz 2 жыл бұрын
One of the main reasons why his show ran for so long! Ed had his limits, like anyone on TV, but was always willing to try new acts and sounds.
@klaus8456 2 жыл бұрын
They stormed amd forced themselves on the show , especially Mr Kirk, it was a celebration and statement for black people and ALL the people
@kokunst1634 Жыл бұрын
ed wanted the band to just play "my cherie amour" this concert was very much a protest
@dubduboverlord5095 2 жыл бұрын
i cannot believe that this exists and was filmed , amazing
@jibsmokestack1 Жыл бұрын
Good to see Kirk and Mingus together. THeir partnership was short but was truly special. 'Oh Yeah' is amazing!
@eargasm1072 Жыл бұрын
Roland Kirk is like the Hendrix of woodwinds...the man played a flute with his nostril! You'd never know to look at or hear him, but Ed was a pretty hip guy when looking back at the diversity of talent he put on his show.
@garyrasberryjr.552 Жыл бұрын
Hendrix really wanted to work with Roland. He was a fan
@t.lawrence1214 Жыл бұрын
People would likely be surprised by how much great musicians do together, behind the scenes. John Coltrane and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix. Prince and Madonna! ....
@Kingzephyr45 2 ай бұрын
Jimi was the Rahsaan of guitar.
@bryanjohnson918 4 ай бұрын
The sheer joy of seeing this is just overwhelming to me.
@williamgregory1848 Жыл бұрын
This is the most amazing shit I’ve ever seen in my life. Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a crazy cat 😂
@mistery-ed7900 2 жыл бұрын
There's a back story surrounding how this performance came about. Kirk and others made scenes in the audiences of other shows and Ed Sullivan wanted to avoid that. Probably the wildest performance ever on the Sullivan Show!
@Clifffields 2 жыл бұрын
Beautifuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuul
@rolandmartin631 2 жыл бұрын
Yes Jazz and People's Movement took direct action against the dearth of black musicians hired by and featured on television shows. When Sullivan says "wonderful" he means wonderful that N-word bullsheet is over!
@ecyfoto Жыл бұрын
The militancy and violence of Haitian Fight Song” is so visceral. Ed Sullivan Show? Amazing!
@jokeyman2943 6 ай бұрын
Wow!!! I was always a fan of Rahsaan, but I missed this one. Fuckin' A!!!! They's playin' their b***s off! Yay! Maybe play this one at my funeral...I'll get up for it!!!
@brucekuehn4031 2 жыл бұрын
And then ending with good old fashioned Dixieland? Crazy!
@davidweinstock4977 2 жыл бұрын
sf jazz festival in mid 70s featured kirk on a 'bay cruise' boat with the trad band from oakland a's stadium. it was a beautiful day and well worth the $5 a ticket i remember paying... almost fifty years and i remember it warmly.
@recordguy4321 2 жыл бұрын
YOW a jazz super group, saw Kirk about a year before this but not with this backing. This channel RULES!
@donn8916 2 жыл бұрын
I saw him multiple times at the Village Vanguard in NYC. He was the greatest musician I had the honor of seeing!
@darrenbrady-harris7279 10 ай бұрын
Absolutely stunning. And it blows my mind that this was on Ed Sullivan!
@Sheerkat7 11 ай бұрын
WOW. Amazing group of musicians. I never saw Rahsaan Roland Kirk play live before. I always wondered how he came up with his unique sound. Great performances.
@tashara2917 27 күн бұрын
Still remember seeing this legend in 1976
@yelesadiq Жыл бұрын
OUTRAGEOUS!! i remember watching that live, one-time-only episode! my parents and siblings and i were watching Ed Sullivan--as most Americans did, every week--being lulled into passivity by all the goofy "entertainers" that were always presented. Then--having staged picketlines that demanded "real black music" on Sullivan's show--Rasaan and company were given ONE chance to play on the most popular TV show in America: when they began blowing, it was as if i was being woken from a decade-long coma. That performance was one of the most revolutionary acts in the history of American culture!
@MisterBeauJanGels 11 ай бұрын
Considering it was months away from being canceled when this aired, is "the most popular TV show in America" really an accurate description?
@DJDownes100 10 ай бұрын
always some argumentative, contrarian simpleton whose mouth is bigger than their brains. be quiet big man @@MisterBeauJanGels
@oldbeatpete 7 ай бұрын
Yes, Ed became passe by '69..
@user-ke8if6ri9r 6 ай бұрын
Incredible 😍
@pgroove163 6 ай бұрын
I don't think all the music entertainers were goofy one bit ...i grooved on a lot of great music on the show over the yrs ..u maybe didn't dig it but doesn't mean it's goofy.. that being said this was great..along with a lot of other cats i seen on the show..
@reh331 Жыл бұрын
A great moment that you never hear of. I stumbled on this and my jaw dropped. Ed Sullivan, wow.
@jplew138 Жыл бұрын
What I said^^^
@Doedoe614 Жыл бұрын
Columbus, Ohio Legend! My Grandfather is layed to rest directly across from Mr Kirk. May he rest in peace 🙏🏾
@krisscanlon4051 2 жыл бұрын
Friggin Mingus and Kirk on Sullivan show! Wow!
@michaeldean9338 Жыл бұрын
I always knew Sullivan was ahead of the game, in regards to the live entertainment format (and really made an honest effort in featuring black entertainers-- particularly during this turbulent era-- but I had NO idea Kirk made an appearance on the show. None! Then to see the likes of Haynes, Mingus and Shepp sharing the stage! Thanks so much for the upload. Props to Mr. Sullivan for always keeping and open-mind. Mr. Rahsaan Roland Kirk! What a remarkable, remarkable artist and innovator.
@billwhite9703 Ай бұрын
Kirk was the leader of the Jazz and People's movement. It had bought the Merv Griffin and Dick Cavett shows to a standstill in a protest to get more black jazz musicians on TV. Kirk and Mark Davis wrote to the show and told them they were next on the list. It's interesting to note that neither on video, or in the description of this segment, all the black musicians were not listed/identified. Some things never change.,
@meckel1271 Жыл бұрын
The dialogue between Rahsaan and Mingus is directly reminiscent of Mingus' duet with Eric Dolphy from 1961 on What Love. I don't know whether they arranged that, but the microtonal bass figure is actually identical to the duet with Dolphy's bass clairinet.
@HarryHeath-j2p 8 күн бұрын
As great as the best woodwinds player in the world and tenor king Rahssan Kirk
@benghauserpu6611 Жыл бұрын
From a musical standpoint, like the man himself Rahsaan's music had a great sense of humor.
@stephencarroll230 2 жыл бұрын
This is insane!
@dougsmith7083 2 жыл бұрын
Helluva band
@Lucas_Dankemann_the_freak 10 ай бұрын
Each one of those guys are enjoying what they doing here, that's our job on Earth but we forgot from time to time, this is not a video, is a window to real.
@billwhite9703 Ай бұрын
Great comment.
@michaelrichter1465 Жыл бұрын
I'd pay good money to see what Ed was doing during this song. He probably had a pistol in his hand. No blinking either. Lol gotta love Ed.
@brotzmannsax 2 жыл бұрын
Imagine a lineup like this and probably nobody knew who they were.
@cultvult Жыл бұрын
This is just incredible. No words. Thanks for sharing this.
@stankatic8182 Жыл бұрын
Incredible ! What a tour de force ! Such a stellar lineup .
@Ishibashi_0118 Жыл бұрын
So incredible to see these artists play together.
@AdrianDeVore 2 жыл бұрын
Jazz Greatness!
@davidreyes1913 2 жыл бұрын
Incredible piece of music making on Ed’s show! Outstanding!
@jameswebb4593 10 ай бұрын
Haitian Fight Song was the first track on The Clown , Mingus's brilliant 1957 album . Which is a thousand times better then this mayhem. The inflated Tears by Kirk is another superb piece , which I also bought.
@ssslothrop379 2 ай бұрын
The best thing about the performance is that the band was supposed to perform a tame cover of a steven wonder song - my cherie amour, instead they delivered this excellent tour de force
@jokeyman2943 4 ай бұрын
The sad thing, and I hope this is changing in 2024-many of these very talented and hard-working musicians, masters of their craft, could barely make a living in the US. I know, I studied with Thad Jones in an arranging class at the birth of the William Paterson colleges jazz program in the early 1970s jazz program-he shortly left the US and i believe he spent the rest of his (sadly short) life in Europe, just to be heard and supported. And as a skinny little white boy I played drums in Newark after the riots in all black clubs with all-black musicians, and they treated me with respect and professionalism (I was pretty good but only 18, wet behind the ears). Well one guy threatened to kill me, but then as a musician, that's not so uncommon in places I played, and it wasn't from my playing, so who cares...! Too bad we didn't treat alot of these amazing musicians the same way as they treated me back then.
@PastaEnthusiast 11 ай бұрын
The personnel gets greater and greater. What a damn fine performance!
@msanders777 10 ай бұрын
I'm from Columbus. First time I've heard Roland Kirk 🤯
@ianlilley9542 Жыл бұрын
Rahsaan told the producers he was gonna cover Stevie Wonder.
@tedstunes22 Жыл бұрын
The composition "Hatian Fight Song"was written by Mingus.
@keiitikawai2747 Жыл бұрын
スッゴイですねーー、楽しすぎる😃メンツもまたすごい🤤
@Oceanmachine27 10 ай бұрын
Loud enough and pure enough to blow the demons right out of your body
@luciusscaevolus8616 2 жыл бұрын
Bravoooooooo! 👍👍👍👍👍
@spyderlogan4992 2 жыл бұрын
I missed this live performance because I was a draftee E-4 sitting in Coleman Kaserne in Gelnhausen, Germany. 2nd of the 6th Artillery, 3rd Armored Division. While the rest of my generation was slogging thru the jungles of Vietnam, getting shot and killed thanks to the bastards Johnson, McNamara and Westmoreland.
@jonathanedwards8696 2 жыл бұрын
Get over it.
@spyderlogan4992 2 жыл бұрын
@@jonathanedwards8696 Get over it?...Why don't you be brave and tell that face to face of all the mothers, sisters, and daughters of the fallen on the Vietnam Wall. Come on, take a trip there and tell them to 'get over it' as they trace the names of their relatives.
@lauriemccullough222 2 жыл бұрын
How I wish we'd never gotten into that war.
@paulj0557tonehead 6 ай бұрын
Our Columbus Ohio legend Roland Kirk! Interstate 71 might have ripped through our jazz circuit, but not the people. Columbus will always be one of the greatest cities in America.
@jrallday 5 ай бұрын
These musicians aint no joke
@cogs2937 10 ай бұрын
Oh my freaking gawd. On Ed Sullivan? Damn.
@Stubummer 9 ай бұрын
WOW Incredible!!!
@thewatcherresurrected 3 ай бұрын
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@harvardkarbodie 2 жыл бұрын
My mind is blown fifty years late. I would never have thought he would have been on the Ed Sullivan show. For the uninitiated, besides being able to do everything, Kirk was able to do what is called circular breathing where he's blowing out a note continuously while both inhaling and exhaling. Dizzy Gillespie is the only other jazz artist I know who could do that, although he used a trick of holding air in his cheeks.
@jonathanedwards8696 2 жыл бұрын
Holding air in the cheeks is how you do circular breathing. How else could you do it? ALL didjeridu players use circular breathing, and they all puff their cheeks out.
@reimourrpower9357 2 жыл бұрын
Miles Davis did it also and said that Frank Sinatra did it to hold longer notes.
@dremell1174 2 жыл бұрын
Harry Carney also used to do it
@neocolors Жыл бұрын
@@reimourrpower9357 how would a singer do circular breathing?
@tomjohnson955 Жыл бұрын
many jazz artists utilize circular breathing, especially more "out" jazz artists like Pharoah Sanders. Even Kenny G held and may still hold the world record for longest continuously held note via circular breathing
@ramsesstafford4640 2 жыл бұрын
Genius. Brilliant.
@TheShabazzProduction Жыл бұрын
Awesome.
@gerryarty8342 9 ай бұрын
Right On
@delirios374 Жыл бұрын
Que hermoso!
@user-IllIllIlI 2 жыл бұрын
crazyyyy
@andyquinn1125 2 жыл бұрын
Million likes
@electrojazz14 2 жыл бұрын
my man forever
@CptEtgar 5 ай бұрын
Holy this is with Mingus wearing a kimono.
@that70sgirl90 2 жыл бұрын
True Black Music will be heard tonight... you just get into it! 😄 Ya just gotta Love him... playing all them instruments! 😎 They are definitely into it! That was wonderful, wonderful! 😄 That's a Happy Monday... thank you for sharing! 💖
@jonathanedwards8696 2 жыл бұрын
Jazz is not black music. It's American music.
@erickrauter2403 Жыл бұрын
@@jonathanedwards8696 jazz is music that was explicitly invented by Black Americans; it is simultaneously Black music AND American music, and is our greatest artistic contribution to the world
@bryanjohnson918 Жыл бұрын
Bright Moments. And Mingus sat in. Fuck me
@TimeXshift Жыл бұрын
that WAS pretty good!
@intelligencelimited2708 Жыл бұрын
......................Nice.
@user-uj6eg5el5u 2 жыл бұрын
ЖЕСТЬ!!!
@spodvoll Жыл бұрын
This is one of the best things I've ever seen on Sullivan. And I've seen a lot of great performances on Sullivan.
@HIT_IT_RIGHT 9 ай бұрын
SHEPP - MINGUS = WOW !
@meikuro1999 9 ай бұрын
最高です。 極東より、愛を込めて。
@ashleymartin83 10 ай бұрын
1:27 might be the only time I've seen Mingus smile, or something close to it
@asktheidiotgaming539 Жыл бұрын
Lmao I love how Archie Shepp never gets his name shown on the screen
@asktheidiotgaming539 Жыл бұрын
Nvm I was wrong. Mingus doesn't tho which is sad.
@Opus766 8 ай бұрын
By the way, here's Charles Mingus. Incredible performance!!
@johnfulmer4058 3 ай бұрын
Too much!
@MelodiesForEverybody Жыл бұрын
Wild cats!
@punchyMiddleEarth 2 жыл бұрын
😳
@MingusDynastyy 2 жыл бұрын
MINGUS!!
@WMA31780 2 жыл бұрын
Archie Shepp way cool!
@oldbeatpete 7 ай бұрын
Charlie Mingus!
@Zickcermacity 3 ай бұрын
Frank Zappa's brotha from anotha motha! ❤
@yakovhadash 2 жыл бұрын
M I N G U S
@svenmartinkunze3655 2 ай бұрын
They played not, what they were supposed to play!!! In a german radio broadcast about Archie Shepp it was said, that there were in advance protests, that there is no black jazz in the tv. So they had to bring some Jazz. They asked in the ES-Show for some non politic classic jazz tunes, which the band even played in the soundcheck. But then live they didn´t behave at all! The group was supposed to play “Ma Cherie Amour,” but Kirk proclaimed “True Black music will be heard tonight!” and the group broke into a six-minute medley of three compositions, the centerpiece of which was Mingus’s “Haitian Fight Song.” So don´t make misstakes about the background/ the Ed Sullivan Show. It is not because of tolerance.... You will find this illustrative story in internet. Just search... With this knowledge you will watch this clip different!
@MrRichiekaye 2 жыл бұрын
Hilarious! Some of the funniest music television ever!!
@jonathanedwards8696 2 жыл бұрын
Great stuff! I don't appreciate the racist remarks about jazz. Jazz is not black music, it's American music.
@reimourrpower9357 2 жыл бұрын
*Jazz is Black Music period* . Black Music is the foundation for all 'American' music along with Indigenous 1st Nation Music.
@jkam2393 2 жыл бұрын
It's black American music
@ceelee321 2 жыл бұрын
But it came from Black American music - almost every major innovator was Black, with a few exceptions ... and how many White players learned to play because they had Black teachers - Hank Williams, Bob Willls, for instance
@originalchilehed Жыл бұрын
I'm a Deep South Florida White-Trash Cracker, and gratefully acknowledge that Jazz is indeed, as Rahsaan said, Black Classical music. One of the great art forms.
@jody8526937 Жыл бұрын
@@reimourrpower9357 No it is not. Jazz is America music derived of infinite influences. This is an endless argument but believe what you want.
@marcjones4393 2 жыл бұрын
I didn’t enjoy it…guess I’m white. Someone plays some “white music” for me.
@marcjones4393 2 жыл бұрын
I feel it is dumb to refer to music as a color. Your ok one way “Black music”, but repulsed by “White music”.
@unwavery 2 жыл бұрын
show us some white music that isnt skrewdriver or something horrible like that.
@moussegarbonzo8352 2 жыл бұрын
You are a delicate little mariposa, no?
@mattelliottmusic 2 жыл бұрын
If your whiteness stops you enjoying this then I feel sorry for you. Most 'white' music from the 20th century is derived from black music, and quite often pale imitations. If he even made that point it's because there was not so much black music on prime time tv at that point and many/most of the audience will have never seen it. Even MTV when it started in the 80's ignored massive black musical movements. It's a shame for you to be so ignorant that it stops you enjoying this amazing performance. (Kirk incidentally was blind because they misdiagnosed a problem that he had as a baby and gave him the wrong medication, something that happened a lot more to black infants than white in those days).
@marcjones4393 2 жыл бұрын
I refuse to say any music is any color. That is racist. If you didn’t get that idea it is because you continue to put your music and ideas into boxes that fit your definition of the world. They are on freaking Ed Sullivan and you still see them as victims of something. That is pretty damn racist. They are examples of success not martyrs.
@pacz8114 Жыл бұрын
I agree with Roland's producer, Joel Dorn, in that this was a waster opportunity: Rather than this ultra-loose "one chord" jam session (which is off-putting to many), the group should have played one of Mingus' progressive arrangements -- with Roland and Archie leading the soloists. Nevertheless, it's an historic event for American coast-to-coast TV. I agree with Roland in that jazz was increasingly ignored by the networks as rock, R&B, and traditional singers were clearly favoured.
@jody8526937 Жыл бұрын
No one was or is buying jazz. TV is all about ratings. How much classical do you see on USA TV? Roland sold how many records?
@pacz8114 Жыл бұрын
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