Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (7 Agustus 1935 – 5 Desember 1977)[1] adalah seorang pemusik jazz multi-instrumentalist yang memainkan saksofon tenor, seruling, dan banyak instrumen lainnya. Ia terkenal karena vitalitasnya di atas panggung, di mana improvisasi virtuoso diiringi oleh olok-olok komik, ocehan politik, dan kemampuan memainkan beberapa instrumen secara bersamaan.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk | |
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Informasi latar belakang | |
Nama lahir | Ronald Theodore Kirk |
Lahir | Columbus, Ohio, A.S | 7 Agustus 1935
Meninggal | 5 Desember 1977 Bloomington, Indiana | (umur 42)
Genre | Jazz, hard bop, soul jazz, post-bop, avant-garde jazz, mainstream jazz |
Pekerjaan | Musisi, komposer, arranger, pemimpin band |
Instrumen | Tenor saxophone, klarinet, stritch, manzello, nose flute, seruling, cor anglais, keyboards, perkusi |
Tahun aktif | 1955–1977 |
Label | King, Chess, Prestige, Mercury, Limelight, Verve, Atlantic, Warner Bros. |
Artis terkait | Charles Mingus, Quincy Jones |
Referensi
sunting- ^ Kernfeld, Barry. "Kirk, Roland." The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed. Ed. Barry Kernfeld. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Retrieved on 2009-02-01. "The year of his birth has been widely given as 1936, but his birth certificate gives 1935 and confirms Ronald, not Roland."
Pranala luar
suntingWikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Roland Kirk.
- Diskografi Rahsaan Roland Kirk di Discogs
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk discography at Jazz Discography Project
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk Rahsaan Roland Kirk: The Cases of the Three Sided Dream, a documentary by Adam Kahan
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk Sound??, film of Kirk with John Cage at UbuWeb
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk and The Vibration Society performing live (October 1972), video, thirteen.org
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk quintet. Diarsipkan 2009-02-03 di Wayback Machine. Three for Festival and Volunteered Slavery, live performance (1975), video, jazzonthetube.com