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Roland Kirk - Kirk In Copenhagen (1964) {2004 Verve Music Group} **[RE-UP]**

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Date: 21 Aug 2021 06:35:19
Roland Kirk - Kirk In Copenhagen (1964) {2004 Verve Music Group} **[RE-UP]**

Roland Kirk - Kirk In Copenhagen (1964) {2004 Verve Music Group}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and log | scans | 266 mb
MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 94 mb
Genre: jazz

Kirk In Copenhagen is the 1964 live album by saxophonist Roland Kirk, recorded and released before he added "Rahsaan" to his name. Originally released on Mercury Records, this is taken from a CD released by Verve Music Group in 2004.
To fully appreciate his artistry, Roland Kirk truly needed to be experienced live. Sure, playing three instruments at once is an incredible feat, but wouldn't it be great to have seen it? Unfortunately for most of us, we can only be satisfied with recordings such as this one from Club Montmarte, Denmark's famous jazz club.

Live, Kirk barrels through tunes with an almost reckless abandon, making judicious use of the noisemaking possibilities of his various instruments and firing out long, squalling passages made possible by the circular breathing he mastered. Kirk was a performer who was very sympathetic to his audience, injecting humor through bawdy lyrics and the occasional nose flute licks and, this being an earlier recording, little of the politicizing that became his passion later on.

Overall this is a prime example of Kirk's gifts as a musician. He was often criticized for being a carnival act, and certainly his ability to multitask brought out the showman in him in front of interested parties. But he was also a crafty improviser as well, and tunes like “Mingus-Griff Song” show his dedication to preserving the legacy of jazz by stitching all its manifestations into a patchwork quilt of influences.

This 1963 date is a good representation of Kirk's work, but it has a couple of drawbacks. First, the sidemen seem under rehearsed, not having fully absorbed Kirk's method and hanging on by their fingernails whenever he solos, seeming to breathe a sigh of relief when he takes a break. Also, the levels aren't balanced: the drums are overmiked and the piano lacks the presence it requires.

But one of the joys of jazz is bringing together musicians from different backgrounds—different countries, even—and watching the interplay that follows no matter what occurs. When it comes right down to it, all musicians speak the same language, and in the end this was the message that Kirk was preaching all along.

Roland Kirk - Kirk In Copenhagen (1964) {2004 Verve Music Group} **[RE-UP]**

1. Narrow Bolero
2. Mingus-Griff Song
3. The Monkey Thing
4. Mood Indigo
5. Cabin In The Sky
6. On The Corner Of King And Scott Streets

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Roland Kirk - tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, flute, nose flute, and/or siren whistle
Tete Montoliu - piano
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pesersen - bass
J.C. Moses - drums

Special Guest:
Big Skol - harmonica

Recorded October 1963 at Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark

Original recordings produced by Quincy Jones
Reissue mastered by Bob Irwin and Jayme Pieruzzi at Sundazed Studios, Coxsackie, NY

EAC extraction logfile from 10. May 2006, 5:02 for CD
Roland Kirk / Kirk In Copenhagen

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