kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m9F5fNGQp7-XlWQ.html (Absolutely not sharing this to try to contradict you, just thought you'd enjoy this guy!)

your words they are salt.. for truth, not Salty, ✌️

i would have loved to see this man perform live.

On a cold winter’s night the early 70’s I was lucky to experience Kirk perform in a small club in Montréal. He felt his way on the stage, opened with the drums, seamlessly handed them off then took the piano, handed that off. Then the show began and the rest was indescribable. He exited as he entered and, here I am, over fifty years later, still picking through what he left on the stage.

​@UncleWally3 What a beautiful rembrance. You are very lucky. I can only dream.

Seriously? I never ever knew that, in all these years.

@Le Continental Google said he was blind from birth (NY Times article). So, anyway, it was news to me. My older brother was/is a jazz guy. I really only knew "Serenade for a Cuckoo, and that was because of Jethro Tull. I should've given Kirk more of a listen back in the day.

@@TheJollycoppers , not actually blind from birth. He had an eye condition and his nurse gave him an improperly mixed dosage of his medication.

Definitely can see and hear the influence!

Check out Eric Dolphy & Yusef Lateef while you're at it

@@parker_pubs Thanks! I'll do that.

For sure

Lautstärke erhöhen

he played a street festival just of the OSU campus in the early seventies. He actually grew up in Columbus oh. Seeing him, I mean hearing him was one of my unforgettable experiences. I was turned on to him a few years before with Jethro Tull's version of this song which is not bad but I found this Kirk to be like a mad scientist who blows you away more and more the harder you listen. Ian Anderson met him when he played the same night at the famous 1969 Newport Jazz Festive. As Ian Anderson himself puts it a few years ago, "Rahsaan was a lot like Captain Beefheart. They’re cut from the same cloth. There’s something about these colourful shamans. They can tease us, but we go along with it, because we know they’re touched by genius, but at the same time there’s a little bit of the snake oil for sale.” But his solos are on the level of the great bee bop masters. He rarely played in anyone else's band. When he played in Columbus he to the organizers to find a bass player and a drummer and he showed up by himself. He just called out a key, hummed and tapped out a grove using the valves on a sax, stomped his foot on the beginning downbeat and they guys played their asses off grinning ear to ear behind him. They were the best local players, and he made them better. Thsi singular event held on a makeshift stage on Pearly Alley just off High street remarkably, had been declared a cop-free zone. Kirk had a vial of cocain around his neck and snorted up from time to time exchanges hit of doobies while holding out the coke spoon to the people in front of the stage. I was as wild a night as I've ever seen, and musically he played his ass off. Comes on wearing in a black biker jacket with 3 saxes around his neck with cazooes whistles, slide whistles and lord knows what else draped around him. He LOVED sound.

I'm just a little jelly...! That's awesome man!

Ulrich Hangartner verstanden👮🏽‍♂️ yes sir👮🏽‍♂️

3801° (mi) piace

Now that would truly be a funeral that was out of this world…or any other for that matter.

Those three Cats would probably play you back to life!

Jimmy who??

Bright moments

Kirk and dizzy for sure

I'd never heard of that but it's easily understood ... Zappa loved people who had their own thing to do. Zappa loved originals.

They shared the stage at one point

The last part of your comment is total bollocks, Anderson had already started to play that way before he knew who Roland Kirk was, plus Ian was a singer songwriter, guitarist and flautist so was a man of many talents by the time one of his band members ( Jeffrey Hammond) told him his flute playing style sounded like Roland Kirks, Anderson did not copy that style.

Ian Anderson played lots of flute styles, and its ridicoulus to compare him with Kirk.

Well, maybe I saw Tull a few times .They did this tune and it's great . Ian did not do the circular breathwork to this degree, also cannot play three wind instruments simultaneously..

Jethro Tull fan here, yes I discovered Kirk thanks to this cover, although it took some time to know it was one haha.

@@moussetache1815 I'll never forget it - back in 2003 I was in a shopping mall walking around a Sears store, when their Musak started playing this. It was one of my better shopping experiences. It really put me in the mood to buy something, LOL.

@@dynasticlight1073 , I've read several Anderson interviews where he mentions Kirk's influence. No "maybe" about it...

+Paradoxataur he was probably trying to click thumbs up and got so excited he missed!

He may of thought it was Ian Anderson playing? 😂

It was a troll. Never mind the naysayers.

Rad

Scrumtrulescent.

Music loved him as much as how much he loved music

WHAT YOU SAY IS VERY TRUE.

Packs internet away, gets flute out...jams like hell with similar musical humans....voila!

Tera Toma Ray Oh no...no. never quit. ...Music is Life..imagine. .had Roland quit? ?

You are correct. Rahsaan influenced Ian heavily.

Right?

Yeah..Jethro Tull covered this song on their first album. So he certainly wasn’t hiding this influence!

Well, almost. Roland wrote and played the song in F minor. Ian played it in G minor, which put him in a technically much easier key. One where he could play closer to the D minor licks that permeate most of his songs. Ian's exciting and innovative rock style made for a great show but he has nowhere near the musical and technical abilities of Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Those double-time, double-tongue runs are amazing! I don't know him but I bet Ian would agree with me. From interviews, he seems like a well-grounded and humble man. I'm a big fan of both of these idiom-bending flutists!

So did Dave Jackson of Van Der Graaf Generator as did many British acts of this era!!!

True that. In fact Jethro Tull covered this song on their very first LP, "This Was". Enc. - a link to the remixed version by master engineer, Steve Wilson. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mJ5zd8V3ldLcnZ8.html

@@robertrichman6873 Thanks, I have this record, but didn't hear Wilsons remix. 👍

Anderson was a songwriter 1st and foremost.

mario7frankielee he actually is jimmy favorite musician

Coz hes black?

i know and i have this thing with „untrained „ singing voices i love jimmys voice and rashans

LandoCowDelicion can‘t tell i‘m colorblind

@@nathanliu7610 captain beefheart was also obsessed with rahsaan

THERE WILL BE NO ONE LIKE HIM IN THIS LIFE TIME!! HE WAS LIKE COLTRANE&HENDRIX YOU WILL NEVER SEE AGAIN IN THIS LIFE.