Rahsaan Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear [Live in Prague, 1967]
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- Live at the Fourth Mezinarodni Jazz Festival, Prague, October 19, 1967.
Line-up:
Roland Kirk - multiple reeds
Ron Burton -piano
Steve Novosel - bass
Jimmy Hopps - drums
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I used to work at a liquor store in columbus ohio, a jazz radio voice used to come in on the weekends and school me on jazz. He asked me "why do you even like sun ra? Kirk is where its at!" He told me several stories about Kirk(also from columbus ohio) one being quite memorable......Roland Kirk used to be a clerk at this record store in Columbus and being blind, people used to go in to buy a record and would have to tell him what the record was, ad the price tag, and even tell him what bill they gave him, and if the change was correct or not! The punchline is, he was never, NOT ONCE ripped off or lied to!
Elle Mimeux That's a cool story.
Elle Mimeux WOW AWESOME 👏😎
Elle Mimeux AWESOME 👏😎
Thanks I used to follow him around in Montreal: from the Esquire Show Bar to the Prag Café to other joints. Totally amazing-he loved guitarist Nelson Simons in Montreal.
Elle Mimeux I had the honor of playing a gig with both Sun and Rasaan and did they fun. Rasaan even shouted to Ra how surprised he was that I was playing the base line on my congas! Thanks for your tribute to both.
This is the side of youtube that is amazing. This incredible footage of Roland Kirk has been rescued from oblivion and presented here. Thanks to the uploader!!!!
he wasn't a musician, he was a Wizard!
Warlock, Grand Master ! ! !
In fact, he was a musician
An alchemist of sound.
Now go and tell that
That's what still amazes me - not only that he could play three at once, but that he could work out musical phrases that could be done with only two hands to finger them. That is some serious brain there.
Walk into my brothers house one day, high as can be, and Rahsaan's Inflated tear was playing. To this day I still have no words to describe or articulate in rational terms what I experienced that day. Even now after so many years has gone by this music just make me feel other worldly
Thanks for posting.
Kirk was not of this world. He was just visiting for a while. Thank goodness we had the technology to capture his work.
Yeah.. this is some other worldly God level. Chills
Gorgeously used in Judas and the Black Messiah - very excited to discover such an amazing artist!
My dad always listen to jazz and always listen to Rahsaan Roland Kirk when I was a kid. The guy was a genius it’s sad he died so young.
☝🏽Exactly what Anthony Tobias said is 💯% the same with me. My pops put me on to Roland Kirk and blues and jazz in general. A genius indeed.
you have to realize how hard it is to get great tone and stay in tune with three differing mouthpieces like that. Some people called it a gimmick, but he was probably the best saxophone player just about ever. Such an amazing talent. Plus that straight tenor. You just don't see horns like that anymore.
The tenor is the normal shape - on his left side. The middle horn is an almost straight alto, and the one on the right is an almost straight soprano.
Omg that is a really weird horn eh.
I mean for jazz
sounds like an alto to me
@@jeanhodgson8623 The straight alto was a Buescher from the 1920s that he modified with a wider bell and called the stritch. The third horn (on his right) was a saxello, a curved B-flat soprano that he also altered a bit and called the manzello.
Even 100 years from now, Rahsaan will be ahead of his time. Bright moments!
Judas and the Black Messiah brought me here.
Me too
I was so hype when I heard this on there.
@@gangland96er The bassist brought me here. I grew up with his son.
@@christopherwashington7668 What? So cool, any anecdote or something interesting?
Me too
this may be the most incredible/interesting thing I've ever seen.
I thought the same thing
then you ought to listen to the entire 'inflated tear' record
its not a gimmick, its serious hart felt music, thats the best part.
❤️
Really? How old are you? about 3 years old I guess. this is rubbish.
@@klaus8456 uhhh ???? 😱
Became a fan at age 11year 1965 and still to this day ain't seen the likes of the man! Nobody
he deserves a movie about his life as well
They w/Mrs. Doorthan Kirk, have just Presented a Film" to the...Film Festival, recently
+JIMMI ESSPIRIT
I believe the film is called "The Three Sided Dream" and it's available online.
Thanks Jimmy love Carolyn
Spiritual_Music73 With out doubt he was unfathomable. Human beings like him should be exposed to all so that we can see our potentials
that instrument is a chrome tail pipe from a '63 Buick
What's amazing is that he pretty much duplicates the recorded version. I think this guy would have been big as a rock star if anybody had really known about him. Along with Eric Dolphy, one of the great individualists of 20th century jazz.
Dolphy is a seriously under rated musician
Blind, plays three saxophones, and is world-renowned, what else can he do?!?!?!?!
the part they used in the movie was so eerie
in the late 60’s Kirk was playing a club in Monterey (before I moved to NYC). I was so enamored of his playing I asked him to visit my studio - so the next day we piled in my old VW bus & I drove to this huge deserted old cannery on Cannery Row extending far out over Monterey Bay I was renting for $300 a month. I’d told him my painting were very textural so he carefully felt several & seemed to get something positive.
the first song I ever felt by Mr. Kirk was the black and crazy blues on Seton Hall radio in East Orange NJ. at that moment I felt I discovered real music. when he died in December of 77 I was listening to the radio when they announced his passing. they read his final wishes and he requested that when he dies that he will be cremated and have the ashes mixed with ghanja and smoked while listening to his music.
Dude was alumni from the Ohio State School for the Blind!! MY Alma mater!!! Amazing!! Passed away in 1977 as I understood it.
i am a 38 years old and by the way im mexican just to make sure that this kind of tune doesnt say or takes sides just tells you how you feel at the moment makes you feel alive man. cheers everybody
Brown people are amazing. Period. ❤
I’m the Drummer & I Love OAXACA AHORA
If you notice, the 'sweet' part of the melody is structurally the same as the 'chaotic' part. The chaotic part is the bare-bones, and the sweet part is fleshed out...
"The inflated tear" by Roland Kirk was an inspiration to me as a guitar player back in the 1960's. I still have the album recording and used to listen to it all the time but forgot about it until I saw the Judas and Black Messiah movie recently.
Exceptionally phenomenal, thanks for posting! Saw his last show Dec 1977, Rest In Power Rahsaan Roland Kirk!
Anna Fisher oh I love that! Rest in Power!
This is a brother that has been touched by Dexter Gordon. Just too much. I'm crying. He lays that low soul horn so deep that all the extra stuff is but ornamentation. RK had the critical horn basis.
dexter was a master
+SELAHPAUSE
So was Rahsaan.
Love how the audience before the number starts is so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Such focus on such massive musical talent
It's Prague. Culturally 100% normative to respect talent. They didn't even have popcorn in movie theatres at the time--why disturb the viewing experience with crunching?
Hey anyone else who knocks us for discovering great music like this via movies like Judas and the Black Messiah need to quit hating.
Exactly.
I close my eyes and listen and my mind goes back and away from the here and now. I am sitting on the edge of something, somewhere, but I don't care where or why. And I don't come back until the music stops!
Rahsaan Roland Kirk was such a brilliant and innovative musician! I had heard of him many years ago, but I hadn't heard any of his music until years later. The interesting thing is that I was at a club called Lou's Blues in San Francisco in the late 1990s where I saw a guy playing two saxophones at the same time. I was completely blown away that someone could do this, and do it so well. Obviously the guy I saw had been completely influenced by Rahsaan Roland Kirk. It's obviously even more incredible seeing Rahsaan playing three saxophones at the same time in the 1960s. This is musicianship at another level! :-D
this is amazing.. POSSIBLY new favourite jazz youtube clip and most definitely favourite saxophone orientated youtube clip
i listened to him in the seventies I loved him, and something just told me to look him up and i found this….how awesome!!!
Been a Kirk fan for nearly three decades. His brilliance always inspires me to dig deeper as a musician.
I am consistently blown away by literally everything I've looked at or listened to from this incredibly talented man.....
Believe it or not, He could play three horns at the same time. He also played a manzello, a stritch, and various sirens and whistles. I'll never forget it.
The "manzello" is a soprano, and the "strich" is an almost straight alto. They are in this video.
He is My mom's first cousin I met him once at a family Reunion he died shortly after I didn't know I was meeting a genius I was just a kid. Wow
This is a gift to humanity, people. Listen. It's just the voice of the universe, that's all.
I had this main melody stuck in my head for a while and was trying to recall what bigger avant-garde/progressive jazz group was playing that. And then I suddenly remembered it was that significant one man playing three reed instruments sounding like eight players.
I heard his version of jitterbug Waltz for the first time - and now I'm here - what the hell is going on - forget the playing - which I already committed to once hearing his version of the Jitterbug Waltz - just lugging those saxophones around your neck like that is tremendously hard work - trying to find single notes two strings apart and three frets down while not looking - playing one guitar is hard enough - this guy is wearing four instruments and jumping back and forth - a musical warrior.
and a genius to boot
I would always catch Roland at The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach Calif /He was always nice and and answerd all my questions about the music/When you went to see a Roland Kirk performance you got a performance ,,you got his best/Miss you Roland,,miss you bad DD
Yeah good times. I remember a 45
minute note he shared with us down there.
Oh and also, I think it was 76 1977 after he had a stroke, he had those horns all modified and he played with one hand. Transcendent.
Great comment -- I use to visit the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach CA -- when it used to be called "Howard Rumsey's Concerts By the Sea" Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a musical genius and will always exist in his music. What a gift and how blessed that he shared this music with us. I only wish the world could have heard him and YES someone should make a movie about his life and his contributions to the world of human communication (music).
Thanks for posting. He's my all-time favorite musician. Pure Genius With Talent. I love his album: The Return of The 5000 lb. Man
ローランド・カークのLPやCDは何枚か持っているけれど、動画で見たのは初めて。 何十回も聞いてきたこの曲は、やはり素晴らしい。
A phenomenon who found ways of expression beyond imagination.
My mom played this when I was a kid in the early 90s late 80s brought me here. ❤️❤️
He created instruments.
Jazz great Tom Scott and his NYU/Steinhardt interviews brought me here. Said that when Tom Scott and the LA Express were hot in the mid-70s, Kirk was their opening act. He was embarrassed by that, saying that Kirk was a “monster” on the horns.
This is phenomenal.
Good :Lord! This just made my day. I've heard the studio version mucho/many times, but to see the him perform it actually has me giddy
So very amazing, with circular breathing to boot. We have such geniuses among us. What a great musical imagination this man had. He said so very much to us, from the invocations of a far away kingdom percussive introduction, to the chanting cries in three parts on the horns so very continental, and to the beautiful great American song book-like ballad, as lovely as it is endlessly yearning all wrapped up into an art music -- transcending all classifications of the meeting of sound and art. Thank you Mr. Kirk for being such an inspiration and bringing tears of sadness and joy to our eyes, exactly what that classical music they call jazz has always been about.
Absolutely brilliant! I had seen a guy play two saxophones at one time in a club in San Francisco in the 1990s and I was amazed. Now I can see where he got the idea! Roland Kirk was incredible! It's sad that a couple of strokes caused his death at age 42. :(
I think, that, and being overweight. Serious problems that may make a difference.😊
This tune made me a Jass fiend at 17.
Was blessed to hear him live at the Berkeley Jazz festival. Not only was he a Master player, he also was a Prophet.
Blind people are like superheroes to the music world.
Awesome !
Great !
I love Roland's music !
Beautiful! A Musical Genius!
Just found out about him and this is truly an amazing talent! Thank you Roland Kirk! ❤
this breaks my heart all the time
I thought it was only me....wow!
@@EHRtraining5134 why?
💯Pure genius … there will never be another
Heard about this guy from the Humans of New York page on facebook :L:L Love it!
Haha So did I
Same. I said to myself, bet that sounded like crap. And I was right.
yeah haha. ah I like it pretty unusual :)
inflated ear I really care about what some vulgar idiot thinks of my music taste.
James Gibson
It sounds like a gimmick to me. I can hear him struggling to handle the numerous instruments and I don't find that pleasant to listen to. Sounds great when he plays one sax. Don't like my opinion? Too fucking bad.
My God, where has those truly exceptional human beings like Rasaan gone?
They"re playing in the celestial orchestra
Thank you for sharing! If people only knew how mind blowing he was and just how amazing it is to create that much sound and beauty from one person.
Downbeat called him, "The Son of Jazz." I was lucky enough to see/hear him twice. At The Bottom Line in NYC Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee opened for him. Incredible night. Thanks for posting.
This is absolutely amazing!
This is so incredible
R. R. Kirk was a magic Border - Line Human but not only, he was a fin musician, he played for a long time with Charles Mingus.
The title has a subtler meaning, as a reference to how Kirk was blinded by a caretaker as a child...the woman mistakenly put too many drops of some kind of medicine in his eyes, and burned his eyes to the point of blindness...
bkread456 whoa! Thank you for sharing that!
Have been blessed to meet so many great jazz artists, Sun Ra being one, but just wish I had been able to meet this great Muse. What a force of Nature he was.
Just learned about Kirk - dude's amazing!! FWIW, note that this festival was in Prague in '67. Less than a year later, Soviet tanks would be rolling in to quash the Prague Uprising.
Judas and the Black Messiah brought me here. To see this performed by one person: GENIUS. GENIUS to use this in the movie.
Some part of my soul got unblocked like a stuffed nose when he started playing
Wow. 3 saxophones. I’ve never Hurd a tone like this before....amazing and brilliant.
A singular genius. One of the greatest musicians who ever graced this planet with his presence. A Eulipion. 🐯
He's an incredible talent! He left here far to soon. Love his music, he's incomparable!!!
I had the amazement and pleasure of seeing RRK at the Village Vanguard, NYC around 1972 and did see him play those 3 horns simultaneously as Kirk walked through the audience! He's one of a kind and he is among the greats!
To the Uninitiated:
uuh, this Master Genius is NOT a "gimmick". Kirk is NOT your "Smooth Jazz" pretenders, blasting players, "looking" like they know what they are doing, but sounding like sirens......
uuh, do you know the mastery it takes, commitment and dedication, do you actually understand what you are listening to? or are you just stuck on the superficial, the "optics", the visual.....
He's BLIND, yes, physically BLIND, do you really understand what he is illustrating?
Creative Genius is never understood by the ordinary and the ignorant, stupid people
Why don't you take your initiation and get the hell outta here. No one needs those hateful words.
found the gatekeeper. Anyone can appreciate good music like this it just takes time and effort.
I had a musical instrument as a kid that really could have spiced up that intro he did on that bendy piece of metal with attached mallet. We used to have a spring doorstop behind the door way back when I was a kid. When you twanged it, it would go boing, boing, boing. I used to twang it for hours on boring sunday afternoons, until my mom would be about crazy. That spring would have fit right into that intro.
RAHSEEN ROLAND KIRK IS MORE PROOF THAT GOD IS TRULY HIP!!
Touching performance. He was truly a beautiful player and human being. If only he hadn't left this world far too soon.
50 years ago and still much better than today with all the techo !
I saw him at the Royal Arms, in Buffalo NY, in 1964, and, as they say, a good time was had by all.
@RB3 Most definitely!
Imagine if this dude had a third arm
he would most likely play the piano at the same time ;-))
Julio Gomez this is simply amazing. Voluntary Slavery was one of my favorite albums, but I had no idea. Simply incredible!
He'd get a surefire invite to the Mos Eisley Cantina Band!
The man's got me wanting to straighten out my alto! Do you hear the sound he gets from it! Bleepin' AWESOME!!!!
Can we all agree. One of the best best best ever.
Erie that artist.
AWESOME 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO. AWESOME 😎
A gifted master at work.
What an artist...miles ahead! Miss him...
Absolutly fantastic!
This blew me away for good
"this guy" is a Master Genius!!!......
I saw this guy from backstage at Newport Folk and Jazz. He demolished everyone.
how the frick does he do this, he plays three saxes better than I can play ONE
Rahsaan,like Sun Ra,was extremely generous.He came in from his planet so he could share his beautiful musical message with us.When you read Rahsaan's explanation of this composition,it makes it even more profound and moving.Thank you for this rare and wonderful clip
The music of Faso is an inexhaustible source of sweetness.
It allows us to plunge deep inside ourselves and at the same time resonate with our fellow man, Yé Lassina Coulibaly❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Someone told me that he could play multiple saxes at once. He was right, I am amazed.
No one else does what Roland Kirk did because they cannot.
RIP brother 🙏 Kirk.
This has to be one of the most beautifull tunes ever.
I came here for the title alone, and found an amazing artist.
Much Appreciation.
Man, I love this song.
Just beautiful..
Like Coltrane and Mingus, Apocalyptical; like the 1960's, when King and Kennedy went down.
Awesome technique and awesome tune.
I saw him many years ago at Meadowbrook Theatre on the campus of Oakland University in Rochester , Michigan. What an experience! He had the audience in the palm of his hand. Herbie Hancock came on after him and over half of the people had left probably feeling as I did that there was nothing else to hear that mattered.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear [Live in Prague, 1967]
I guess this is Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor and ALTO saxophones plus flutes (and other instruments)...
Racked my brains for a week trying to remember who made this masterpiece. Then it occurred to me that it was a man who could play three saxophones at once…of course! RRK! Used for a station id spot at Georgia Tech’s WREK for years.