Rahsaan Roland KIRK - The Inflated Tear 1967

Rahsaan Roland KIRK - The Inflated Tear 1967

Jazz

Roland Kirk's music is jazz by definition but in reality it is s unclassifiable: a completely original performer whose style encompasses his early New Orleans roots, through swing and bebop, to the abstraction of the 1960s and 1970s avant-garde. "The Inflated Tear" is, in my opinion, his finest work. From the opening chords of the Black and Crazy Blues Roland takes the listener on a ride that is unmatched in virtuosity by any other performer regardless of their musical idiom. While Inflated Tear is Kirk's spiritual essay about his sightless life, it is a musical tone poem for the listener taking us to places seldom visited. It is truly a masterpiece. Highly recommended
By Earl Manley.
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The debut recording by Roland Kirk (this was still pre-Rahsaan) on Atlantic Records, the same label that gave us Blacknuss and Volunteered Slavery, is not the blowing fest one might expect upon hearing it for the first time. In fact, producer Joel Dorn and label boss Neshui Ertegun weren't prepared for it either. Kirk had come to Atlantic from Emarcy after recording his swan song for them, the gorgeous Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith, in April. In November Kirk decided to take his quartet of pianist Ron Burton, bassist Steve Novosel, and drummer Jimmy Hopps and lead them through a deeply introspective, slightly melancholy program based in the blues and in the groove traditions of the mid-'60s. Kirk himself used the flutes, the strich, the Manzello, whistle, clarinet, saxophones, and more -- the very instruments that had created his individual sound, especially when some of them were played together, and the very things that jazz critics (some of whom later grew to love him) castigated him for. Well, after hearing the restrained and elegantly layered "Black and Crazy Blues," the stunning rendered "Creole Love Call," the knife-deep soul in "The Inflated Tear," and the twisting in the wind lyricism of "Fly by Night," they were convinced -- and rightfully so. Roland Kirk won over the masses with this one too, selling over 10,000 copies in the first year. This is Roland Kirk at his most poised and visionary; his reading of jazz harmony and fickle sonances are nearly without peer. And only Mingus understood Ellington in the way Kirk did. That evidence is here also. If you are looking for a place to start with Kirk, this is it.
By Thom Jurek, AMG.
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Steve Novosel- Bass
Jimmy Hopps- Drums
Ron Burton- Piano 
Roland Kirk- Tenor Sax, Horns [Manzello, Stritch], Clarinet, Flute, Whistle, English Horn, [Flexafone]
Dick Griffith- Trombone (B4) 
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A1. The Black And Crazy Blues 6:07
A2. A Laugh For Rory 2:54
A3. Many Blessings 4:45
A4. Fingers In The Wind  4:18

B1. The Inflated Tear 4:58
B2. The Creole Love Call 3:53
B3. A Handful Of Fives 2:42
B4. Fly By Night 4:19 
B5. Lovellevelloloqui 4:17
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