RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK - VINYL SPIRITS UP ABOVE: THE ATLANTIC YEARS [VINYL]

Popis - SPIRITS UP ABOVE: THE ATLANTIC YEARS [VINYL]:
'Spirits Up Above'. He was as funky as singer James Brown. With three horns in his mouth, he sounded like the entire JB reed section. And onstage, with a truckload of instruments around his neck, he was the hardest working man in jazz business. Saxophonist, flautist, clarinettist and multiple custom-reed instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1936-77) livened up the music scene like few other artists before or since. The 22-track collection, sequenced more or less chronologically, follows Kirk's trajectory from a neo-bar walking tenor saxophonist ("Making Love After Hours" and "Roots" from Here Comes the Whistleman), into a more ambitious, but no less compelling, composer and player, beginning with 1967's "Inflated Tear." Many of Kirk's most celebrated tracks are included, along with a couple of dogs-"Portrait of Those Beautiful Ladies" and "Freaks For the Festival" from 1975's The Case of the Three-Sided Dream in Audio Colour, an unfortunate attempt to buff up the music for the emergent jazz-funk audience. Initially derided by "serious" jazz critics, who thought he belonged in a carnival side show, Kirk ultimately won over most skeptics. He was an experimentalist hardwired into blues and gospel roots, an incandescent soloist, and a supreme entertainer. He was also an articulate supporter of the black and civil rights movement. He just about had it all-and his music still sends shivers up the spine 35 years after his death.
Tracks: LP1: Making Love After Hours; Roots; The Black and Crazy Blues; The Inflated Tear; Lovellevelliloqui; Lady's Blues; Volunteered Slavery; Spirits Up Above; A Tribute to John Coltrane; Medley; Something for Trane That Trane Could Have Said; Ain't No Sunshine; Blacknuss.
LP2: Do Nothing' Till You Hear From Me; Carney and Begard Place; Seasons (One Mind Winter, Summer, Ninth Ghost); Pedal Up; Anysha; Three for the Festival; Portrait of Those Beautiful Ladies; Freaks for the Festival; Serenade to a Cuckoo.