Rahsaan Roland Kirk? Bright Moments 2LP 1973 NEAR MINT VINYL

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Bright Moments

Atlantic SD 2-907 2LP 33RPM 12" 1973 (US)

Rahsaan Roland Kirk's live club gigs were usually engaging, freewheeling affairs, full of good humor and a fantastically wide range of music. The double album Bright Moments (reissued as a double CD) is a near-definitive document of the Kirk live experience, and his greatest album of the '70s. The extroverted Kirk was in his element in front of an audience, always chatting, explaining his concepts, and recounting bits of jazz history. Even if some of his long, jive-talking intros can sound a little dated today, it's clear in the outcome of the music that Kirk fed voraciously off the energy of the room. Most of the tracks are long (seven minutes or more), demonstrating Kirk's wealth of soloing ideas in a variety of styles (and, naturally, on a variety of instruments). "Pedal Up" is a jaw-dropping demonstration of Kirk's never-duplicated three-horns-at-once technique, including plenty of unaccompanied passages that simply sound impossible. There's more quintessential Kirk weirdness on "Fly Town Nose Blues," which heavily features an instrument called the nose flute, and the title track has a healthy dose of Kirk singing through his (traditional) flute. His repertoire is typically eclectic: Ellington's "Prelude to a Kiss"; a groovy Bacharach pop tune in "You'll Never Get to Heaven"; a lovely version of Fats Waller's "Jitterbug Waltz"; and a stomping, exultant New Orleans-style original, "Dem Red Beans and Rice." Perhaps the best, however, is an impassioned rendition of the ballad standard "If I Loved You," where Kirk's viscerally raw, honking tone hints in a roundabout way at the avant-garde without ever losing its melodic foundation. Bright Moments empties all the major items out of Kirk's bag of tricks, providing a neat microcosm of his talents and displaying a consummate and knowledgeable showman. In short, it's nothing less than a tour de force.

Tracklist
A1 Introduction 2:06
A2 Pedal Up
Written-By – Rahsaan Roland Kirk
11:52
A3 You'll Never Get To Heaven
Written-By – Burt Bacharach & Hal David
9:48
B1 Clackety Clack
Written-By – Rahsaan Roland Kirk
2:30
B2 Prelude To A Kiss
Written-By – Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills
5:05
B3 Talk (Electric Nose) 2:33
B4 Fly Town Nose Blues
Written-By – Rahsaan Roland Kirk
8:52
C1 Talk (Bright Moments) 3:30
C2 Bright Moments Song
Written-By – Rahsaan Roland Kirk
10:02
C3 Dem Red Beans And Rice
Written-By – Rahsaan Roland Kirk
7:05
D1 If I Loved You
Written-By – Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
8:50
D2 Talk (Fats Waller) 1:30
D3 Jitterbug Waltz
Written-By – Fats Waller
7:00
D4 Second Line Jump
Written-By – Rahsaan Roland Kirk
1:30

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Atlantic Recording Corporation
Copyright (c) – Atlantic Recording Corporation
Recorded At – Keystone Korner
Remixed At – Regent Sound Studios, New York City
Manufactured By – Atlantic Recording Corporation
Mastered At – Atlantic Studios
Pressed By – Presswell

Bass – Henry Pearson
Design – Ira Friedlander
Drums – Robert Shy
Engineer [Re-mix] – Robert ‘Lips’ Liftin
Engineer [Recording] – Biff Davies, Ed Barton, Jack Crymes
Flute, Flute [Nose], Tenor Saxophone, Saxophone [Manzello], Saxophone [Stritch] – Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Liner Notes – Bob Drinkwater, Joel Dorn, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Todd Barkan
Percussion – Joe Habao
Photography By – Jim Marshall
Piano – Ron Burton
Producer – Joel Dorn
Synthesizer, Tambourine – Todd Barkan

Recorded live at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, California, on June 8 & 9, 1973

Gatefold sleeve.

Two 12" vinyl discs are NEAR MINT in original printed promotional paper inner sleeves in a gatefold picture sleeve in GOOD condition (bends, edge wear) in a plastic protector sleeve