Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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Roland Kirk: Doesn't Fit Into The Avant Garde
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 12 November 1966
JAZZ snobs have been hit hard by the arrival of Roland Kirk the Magnificent. Roland's music lurches crazily, but creatively from the humorous to the ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 13 July 1967
The Biggest Show in Town ...
Roland Kirk: Jazz Workshop, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 3 April 1968
Kirk Brightens New Workshop ...
Profile and Interview by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 12 September 1968
MUCH OF Roland Kirk's life has been a dogmatic and frustrating crusade to make his listeners realize that the reason he plays two or three ...
Newport Jazz Festival 1969: New Records & Not All That Jazz
Live Review by Ian Dove, Billboard, 19 July 1969
NEWPORT, R.I. — On paper at least the experiment of adding rock music to the Newport Jazz Festival 1969 came from the purest of motives. ...
Led Zeppelin, Wolfgang, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Isaac Hayes: Winterland, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 7 November 1969
Led Zeppelin Has a Rare Magic ...
Led Zeppelin, Isaac Hayes, Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Winterland, San Francisco CA
Live Review by uncredited writer, The Berkeley Barb, 14 November 1969
WINTERLAND BUMMER ...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Nucleus: Ronnie Scott's Club, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 10 January 1970
Rahsaan Roland Kirk at London's Ronnie Scott's Club ...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk & the Vibration Society: Rahsaan Rahsaan (Atlantic)
Review by Colman Andrews, Phonograph Record, March 1971
RAHSAAN ROLAND Kirk is an irrepressible wit, musically and verbally; he's also a fine, funky philosopher, an exhilarating entertainer, and one of the best damn ...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Kirk's Works
Interview by Brian Case, New Musical Express, 15 January 1977
In spite of a stroke, multi-instrumentalist RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK is still hangin' in there, copying carpets and capturing the sound of the sun. ...
Obituary by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 6 December 1977
BLIND JAZZ multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk died of a stroke early Monday morning after finishing a performance at an Indianapolis club. He was 41. ...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Requiem For Rahsaan
Obituary by Brian Case, New Musical Express, 17 December 1977
THE DEATH of Rahsaan Roland Kirk at the age of 41, shortly after playing two concerts with his group, The Vibration Society, at Indiana University ...
Retrospective by Glenn O'Brien, unpublished, 2002
BACK THERE during the revolution, when we called ourselves freaks proudly, rock was rocking the world. Musicians like Hendrix, Clapton, and Page, and philosophical bands ...
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