Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Recently I've been listening to Anything goes: the Cole Porter songbook instrumentals. One of the cuts on it is Get out of town, by the Roland Kirk Quartet. I have become utterly fascinated by it, and, of course, by Kirk himself. I remember seeing him in the Fillmore East. An Internet gave me a website that lists the Fillmore East shows.

There it is: 1, 2 & 3 April 1971 Santana, Tower Of Power, Rahsaan Roland Kirk & Vibration Society.

Foolish and intoxicated, we booed him; we were there to see and hear Santana, not this weird music. He got pissed off, and broke the wooden chair he had on stage. Later, off the rock and roll bandwagon, learning about jazz, I began to appreciate him.

 This picture well illustrates his style.


For Rashaan Roland Kirk
Gerald Majer
Callaloo, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Spring, 1999), pp. 333-334


Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3299453

For Rashaan Roland Kirk, by Gerald Majer © 1999 The Johns Hopkins University Press.

This is the first of two pages; Callalloo is "A journal that reports on African and African American arts for the general audience."

This is one of several videos on the Web. Check out Quincy Jones's 'fro.