Rahsaan Roland Kirk: An Alternative Top Ten Albums Guaranteed To Bend Your Head
November 02, 2020
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Jazz musicians are rarely called shamanistic but the description fits Rahsaan Roland Kirk precisely. Clad in black leather trousers and heavy duty shades (he was blind from the age of two), a truckload of strange looking horns strung round his neck--two or three of which he often played simultaneouslyand#151;twisting, shaking and otherwise contorting his body, stamping his feet, exhorting audience members to feel the spirit and make some noise and handing out bags of penny whistles to help them do that, on a good night Kirk made James Brown look pedestrian... [ read more ]
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