This blind multi-instrumentalist's first Atlantic album, released in 1968, was closer to ... more
the jazz mainstream than his live performances, employing a fairly conventional piano-bass-drums trio. It was Kirk's own playing that usually shifted his music's accent towards the other-worldly. "The Black And Crazy Blues" is a slow-dragging update of a New Orleans funeral dirge, the tune Kirk intended for use during his own cremation, prior to his ashes being smoked in the joints of his mourners ... Roland's party piece was to insert two or three horns in his mouth at the same time. This was no cheap novelty trick, but rather an integral part of his improvisational technique. Aside from tenor saxophone, clarinet and flute, he was also fluent on unfamiliar horns like the manzello, stritch and flexafone, all three used to create the title track's recurrent fanfare, unpredictably interrupting his own oleaginous tenor glide. "A Laugh For Rory" features bobbing flute, propelled by the shimmering ride cymbal of Jimmy Hopps, his drumming very distinctive throughout. "Many Blessings" picks out some solo tenor gristle, then Ellington's "Creole Love Call" develops a burred sax/clarinet saunter, the album closing with "I'm Glad There Is You", a brief bonus cut lifted from the same sessions.--Martin Longley
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Advantages: Roland Kirk is a fantastic Saxophonist, flautist and clarinettist, playing good conventional solos, as well as playing up to three saxophones at a time on some recordings and playing the flute through his nose while singing!! Disadvantages: Some people may find his music slightly gimmiky - why have one person playing 3 saxes when you can have three people doing it?
RahsaanRolandKirk was not only a great saxophonist, flautist and clarinettist, but he also modified his own saxophones and had the ability to play up to three at the same time (stritch - like a straight alto, manzello - looks like an alto, but sounds like a soprano, and he also used a normal tenor sax)! What's more, Roland was also blinded soon after birth!
While RolandKirk had the ability to play great solo's on a single sax, he also had the ability to play utterly astonishing sections on three saxes, sometimes soloing on one while accompanying himself with the others - one of my favourite recordings like this is on the CD Bright Moments, in the second track, Pedal up, when about 10 minutes through the piece the rest of the band stops, while Roland breaks into Satin Doll on his three saxophones in harmony before preceding to solo ...
Advantages: Small, comfy, brilliant. Disadvantages: Not as good as a full size pillow.
My Inflatable Friend (You should have heard my first title!!!) ; )
These pillows are fantastic, in my case, I used to make do with an old pillow case stuffed with a couple of jumpers or whatever came to hand, but now I have one of these, I realise how good they are. I use if for the occasional bit of camping, but mainly nights away when truck driving.
I had heard of these a long time ago, but after trying several camping shops, as well as local high street shops, I had given up on finding one, but straight out of the blue, a mate of mine came round and threw one at me! I accepted it with thanks, thinking it was not quite as good as I thought. However, after giving it a good testing while on a night away in Norfolk, I found that it was the best thing that had ever happened to me. It's only something that supports me, but ...
Advantages: modifiability, portable Disadvantages: need of electricity
I have been playing the piano for several years, each week going to a class, hard training all the time, concerts, and once, I got for Christmas this new invention.
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I didn't know at all what to expect. Before, I occasionally played for fun on keyboard. So I thought that it is comparable to such quality = not having a real size of a usual wooden piano. The other thing is that the number of keys, the low bass and high tones are usually missing on such a digital piano. But as I saw it then packed out, I starred on it with an open mouth because the keys had the usual size of a USUAL piano. What I really started to like on Roland EP-77 it was the fact that it is portable. - Several times it happened to me that I couldn't play the big piano at certain occasions because I cannot just put this instrument into my pocket ...
Lirybka 31.12.2007 (30.12.2007)
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Product details
Title
Inflated Tear, The
Performer
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Genre
Jazz Instrument
Sub Genre
Saxophone
Release Date
20/07/1998
Original Release Year
1968
Label / Distributor
Atlantic / Cinram Logistics
Engineer
Paul Goodman
Producer
Joel Dorn
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
81227520724
Catalogue Number
8122752072
Additional notes
Album Notes
The 1998 reissue of THE INFLATED TEAR contains all the original tracks and liner notes, plus additional tracks and rare photos. Personnel: Rahsaan Roland Kirk (tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, clarinet, flute, whistle, English horn, flexafone); Dick Griffith (trombone); Ron Burton (piano); Steve Novosel (bass); Jimmy Hopps (drums). Recorded at Webster Hall, New York on November 27 & 30, 1967. Originally released on Atlantic (1502). Includes liner notes by "Casey" Bailey. All tracks have been digitally remastered. For his 1967 debut session with Atlantic Records after a long and fruitful association with Mercury, legendary multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk (he added the Rahsaan in 1969) wasted no time in establishing himself at his new home--three of this album's nine songs are among Kirk's all-time classics. The melancholy yet not mournful title track is one of Kirk's most beautiful works, while the sprightly flute showcase "A Laugh for Rory," dedicated to his young son, is as charming as its obvious predecessor, 1964's "Serenade to a Cuckoo." In addition, the fiery opener, "The Black and Crazy Blues," features some of Kirk's most aggressive playing. Backed by a nimble trio led by longtime associate Ron Burton on piano, Kirk is as unpredictably brilliant in a variety of genres and on a variety of instruments as ever. THE INFLATED TEAR is Roland Kirk at his best.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Black And Crazy Blues
2.
Laugh For Rory
3.
Many Blessings
4.
Fingers In The Wind
5.
Inflated Tear
6.
Creole Love Call
7.
Handful Of Fives
8.
Fly By Night
9.
Lovellevelliloqui
10.
I'm Glad There Is You (bonus track)
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