Rahsaan Roland Kirk - I Say A Little Prayer - Live 1969

[jcbluefunk]

bassman is Vernon Martin. total BADASS !

[trkkazulu]

@ilovecereal371 "Elevator music" has integrity.

[TheWillowhead]

Rah was "Something Else" i was the sound-man at the Keystone Korner, and working with him, was one INCREDABLE Bright Moment! ONE TON.....and it aint NEVER got no lighter. ;>)

[chilladelphian]

@jcbluefunk pretty sure it's a stylophone

[jcbluefunk]

anybody know what that thing is that this musical GENIUS is playing at the start of the vid? eternal rest grant unto Roland o' LORD and let perpetual light shine upon him. Amen.

[MorningView4]

Music as music should be.

[SuperDjMoss]

Sadly you can't this that on stage anymore

[giselepilz]

Sensacional!!! 

[MrIlvis]

this is how musicians get into trance... but trance in good way

[soytuso]

Fantastic, very good supershow video.

[marcusparks]

Lungs of steel!! Wow!!

[zaxty3000]

@marcusparks Actually cheeks of steel lol He's circular breathing

[saintpistolsburg]

Best thing I've ever seen.

[troumatic3000]

he was the best ever!!

[mysticjaz]

Kirk was,,, well, I just can't find words to describe him! Joy, ecstasy,,,,

I did some gigs with Rahn Burdon (the piano player) and Junni Booth ( who used to play bass with him at one time). Amazing!

[caldrich83]

My man is going wild on that bass. And I like it.

[jcbluefunk]

@caldrich83 dude is killin' it on Bass 4real ! anybody know who this Bass Beast is ?

[blackandtanful]

ヘヘへのﾍ!～ﾔｯﾊﾟﾘ､これ聴かぬとネ!～ロ～ー～ﾗ～ﾝ～­ﾄﾞ･ｶ～ｸ 様様､小さな願いが我々ｼﾞｬｽﾞへの大いなる願いに!! #jazzm 偉業

[TheAnnafisher]

one of my greatest influences playing on of my favorite songs, attended his very last show in Bloomington, Indiana in the 70's.

[blueprairiedog]

This ain't Dionne Warwick's version!

[blackandtanful]

ｼｯｶﾘ映像あるネ､ﾛｰﾗﾝﾄﾞ･ｶｰｸ の必殺"小さな願い"～身震いする!～ﾊﾞｶﾗｯｸ･ﾃﾞｲヴｨ­ｯﾄﾞが狂気! #jazzm

[discoAL]

he was an incredible and gifted musician.. as far out as Kirk may seem on the surface to some people & critics, i myself toatally get it. its a feeling thing. he knows how to take you there. there was always a logic and earthiness that i connect to in his approach. awsomely funky musician..

[TMTKowalski]

Frank Zappa in the crowd at 6:56 :)

[JazzIsAlways]

@TMTKowalski If that guy really is Frank Zappa, it would make sense, as him and Kirk used to gig together back in 1969, the year this video was shot :)

sadly, no audio from those live sessions have EVER been known to exist. It's a real shame, I've always wondered what Kirk and the Mothers would have sounded like

[madmexarts]

@TMTKowalski Thats not Frank Zappa

[tecnoarch]

@madmexarts : That's little, but sure!

[Flowmotion1000]

@TMTKowalski That's not Frank Zappa at all.It's probably,if anything, the English version: Hank Zappa.

[jcbluefunk]

@Flowmotion1000 LOL !

[chubbypuppys]

@TMTKowalski whoooooooooooooooooooooa thanks for pointing that out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[damphear2]

@TMTKowalski not zappa.

[n8dogg87]

THIS is how you use circular breathing. Kenny G, you taking notes?

[nassreiskulturen]

@n8dogg87 Why did you mention this name? Was this really necessary?

[n8dogg87]

@nassreiskulturen Because he's really the guy who's 'known' for circular breathing, but often he doesn't do much with it except hold notes for ten, twenty minutes.

[nassreiskulturen]

@n8dogg87 :-) My consciousness is still impaired after looking him (Kenny G) up on youtube. So I hope you will be able forgive me for my unqualified commentary.... After I listened to his "Wondeful World" version (rape might be more appropriate) for maybe 30sec, I needed a 1h "Black Saint and the Sinnerlady"-dosis to be able to complete my day.

[blackandtanful]

やっぱりこれか!ﾛｰﾗﾝﾄﾞ･ｶｰｸ “小さな願い” 1969～～ｼﾞｬｽﾞの真実 #jazzm

[MYRAKULA]

EXCELLENT :D

[yatah]

Who's playing those guitar bends at the end?

[n8dogg87]

@yatah I think it may be a transition into another live performance. This looks like it was recorded from some compilation show.

[yatah]

@n8dogg87 I know man; that's why i'm asking :)

[monocromoish]

i love it

[EMCEMITCH]

listen up==yes he played the manzello, the nose flute, stritch and he played two or three HORNS simultanously--all wonderful diversions--but this man was an IMMORTAL-saw him at carnegie hall in a jam session that mingus put together in 1974 celebrating the music of DUKE--AND HE WAS THERE IN A SAXOPHONE BATTLE ROYALE PLAYING WITH THE YOUNG LIONS OF THAT ERA ON C-JAM BLUES---JOHN HANDY WAS THERE AS WELL AS HAMIETT BLUIETT ON BARITONE, GEORGE ADAMS, CHARLES MACPHERSON AND HE BLEW THEM ALL AWAY

[Bulletstop75]

@EMCEMITCH Man you lucky bastard - one of the greats I desperately wished I could see live.

[FranklyMyDarling]

awesome. but seriously, the armish tamborine player, and the unmoved 60's hipster chicks: Wut?

[electrickabuki]

@FranklyMyDarling you're a square, you ARE the man.

[FranklyMyDarling]

@electrickabuki

What are you doing on youtube? I should tell your parents, listening to all this "Jazz Music". Devil music's what I call it. No man should be able to play two instuments at once. Now leave before I cane you

The Man

[CMSFoundation]

@FranklyMyDarling "Amish" percussionist is Joe Habao Texidor, longtime musical collaborator and friend of Kirk. Acted as his "handler" for a while, organizing schedules and acting as a mediator with band members. Eventually had to quit when it became too much stress, but his percussion can be heard on tons of great Kirk albums, including "Bright Moments," "Rahsaan Rahsaan," and a few other places. The book "Bright Moments" has more on Joe.

[n8dogg87]

@FranklyMyDarling Those women nodding cracked me up.

They're faced with some of the most badass music I've ever heard... and they nod. As though they were watching a college lecture.

[nassreiskulturen]

@n8dogg87 I think this was that "Supersession" program. They rather came to see Jack Bruce or Led Zepllin... No offense here, but Kirk is a different league.

[wildehavana]

stoned:P

[thegoodusernameman]

Buddy Miles face at the end: "How in the hell we gonna follow that shit?!" ... seriously though, holy shit that was fuckin unreal-ly good

[313MEXICANBLACKPRIDE]

this is some heronn music,,,,i digg this shit !

[Metamusik]

Is that a Stylophone in the intro? This is fucking awesome. As bizarre as a Sun Ra gig, but a different vibe altogether. The one-man-big-band element really makes the jam feel focused in all it's free-form madness. I feel like my tambourine wielding beard-brother on the right there.

[aaronamccoy]

B L A C K N U S S

[jrogers71]

Thankyou for putting this out there.. 

[Boylefawsitt]

Yeah! I had the privilege of seeing Rahsaan live at The Jazz Workshop in Boston in 1972. A force of nature for sure.

[formsofthingsunknown]

@Boylefawsitt yeah... i saw the man at the same club three years later around 75, BRIGHT MOMENTS!

[terrryc]

I wonder if this is what Hal David and Burt Bacharach had in mind when they wrote this song......Tripsville, Daddy-oh!

[bissia]

Seeing this I think many of these boffins behind a laptop we get today in so called live p.a. deserve a butt kick

[dancing0being]

Great performance and artist!!

[eabatch]

for john criscitello-

[Voutshy]

Kutiman sent me :D

[Zarafraze]

@Voutshy Kutiman got me there too!!! 

[trojanlol]

too bad I cant really hear the bass

nice one ;)

[LucienProvencher]

Face, 6:58 LOL, p.s. Roland Kirk = amazing

[EMCEMITCH]

think this cat was a novelty act---a clown---having a gimmick----tell u what-----check out how he BLEW THE HOUSE DOWN AT CARNEGIE HALL in 1974 playing in a jam master battle of all the saxes---and he gave all the cats a lesson in mastery and creativity---it was charles mingus date giving homage to duke and atlantic records recorded it live. the LP has only 2 tunes on it---dukes c-jam blues and perdido--i was sitting third row cenyer and Rhasaan killed em

[tdnares]

@EMCEMITCH Absolutely. He clearly was the most masterful of the group.

[saitaro]

 In my childhood I once asked my mother how music seems, how I know - it's a black man in sunglasses with 2 saxes.

[dzzydean]

I read "Bright Moments" a couple of years ago and it was fantastic! My father in law has some WILD Rashaan stories!

[mysticjaz]

Listening to this brought tears to my eyes. This is REAL!!!

[LKaramazov]

@mysticjaz Yeah, its shocking these days when you see something real!

[SuperXavier30]

The Gifted One!!!

[soulbwoyblow]

HEAVY V. Thanks for this. OMG fantastic. Rogier gave Saskia a xylophone ting for her birthday last year :-))

[scoutali]

super

[Bambuty]

Involved in what's happening.

[zakcattack]

awesome, love the drummer and roland. Nuts

[StevenCreates]

God bless characters like Rahsaan Roland Kirk . . . authentic to the bone.

[JoelGallob]

Truly a great, creative spirit.

[techxdabruiser]

Yes, Lawd !!! Rahsaan Lives !!!

[lex34]

His Brilliance makes tear up......wurd to Dilla

[mambro21st]

Rahsaan - I say a big prayer for you man.

Maybe you are God - one thing's for sure -you're with God - forever & one day we'll dance the nights away once more.

[MsMacgill]

Far Out!!!

[FernandOrtizdeUrbina]

@jdukulele The drummer is Jimmy Hopps, not Kenny Clarke.

[nicolas932]

was this song recorded in an album? thanks

[ThePiecone]

The drummer reminds me so much of Max Roach.

I need to know who it is!

[jdukulele]

@ThePiecone This performance is part of a concert that was recorded and it's available on videotape as well as dvd. Just look up "Super Show" . Also appearing was Led Zeppelin in their first public performance. Jon Hiseman's Colosseum,

Soft Machine, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Jack Bruce, Buddy Miles, and others were featured. It's really good and I would recommend it for any music lover.

[ThePiecone]

@jdukulele

That sounds like the best thing ever.

I'll have to check that tape/dvd out! [:

Or if they have a beta tape of it, I'd get that. Then I'd need a beta tape player.

This sounds like far too much work.

[jdukulele]

@ThePiecone The drummer is Kenny Clarke of the Modern Jazz Quartet.

[ooosanteooo]

@ThePiecone I thought the same. Looks exactly like Max Roach!!

[SoMX82]

Another thing... I always hesitated singing the first verse to this song because I'm a dude, but Rashaan redeemed it for all of us. Big Ups, and to all the performers who kept up with him.

[SoMX82]

Yes! - but they seem to be part of an exhibit, check out the crowd - no movement!?!?

[vth42]

Rahsaan rocks the stylophone in the intro. Totally ripping, late-60's Mothers of Invention sound on this one.

[joshuasound]

the great vernon martin on bass!!! he was amazing. G-d bless him. who knows the other musicians?

[mysticjaz]

Unbelieveable! Nobody like RRK!!!

Listening to him, his music was so intense I can hardly write this!

[jazzynlala]

These are walking music notes...not humans...musicmans

[masnowden]

"All alONE

Couldn't get to the telePHONE"

[jdukulele]

When he died the world lost an unbelieveable musician.

[iluvjazz7]

@jdukulele Man I am so glad I got a chance to see this video. I want to thank the person that posted this. A micro syth in the 60s. Wow!

[jdukulele]

@iluvjazz7 This instrument is still made. It's called a stylophone. They make one that is also percussion sounds. They're pretty cheap in price.

[GreekFire25]

Exactly who did they shoot down?... (anybody know who he's talking about?))

[whitehouse1958]

@GreekFire25 Martin Luther King

[GreekFire25]

Thanks

[SoMX82]

@whitehouse1958 - I think that too, but then who's "the lady"?

[ureadmymind]

Does anyone know what kind of electric instrument R.Kirk is using at the begining of this?Has a little "pencil" like tool...

[razorwirenineeleven]

It's a stylophone :)

[chubbypuppys]

Iv read a lot about Kirk and he uses a lot of instruments that would be unrecognizable to the average musician, he not only uses instruments that he finds but he also makes his own... ever seen him play the nose flute? If not look it up man its pretty cool

[SoMX82]

@ureadmymind - It might just be a small keyboard and he's playing it like a harmonica.

[vmejia44]

Como el sax de la maldita!

[astrobotty]

where has the video for volunteered slavery gone?

Its his best song!

[dazednconfused41]

WHATCHA GONNA SAY!?

GONNA SAY A LITTLE PRAYER!!

BAM!!! (explosion of awesome music)

[me007963]

@dazednconfused41 YES and i love the look of bliss on tambourine man who is tripping out of his mind's face. fucking awesome.

[h8h8hate]

The guy beside Roland with the white hat, he bothers me in some way. maybe because of the way he looks and move. Lmao. Great video!

[SoMX82]

@h8h8hate - Maybe it's 'cuz he's only playing the tamborine and you know you could just as well...lol. Diddo, great vid.

[iluvjazz7]

@SoMX82 is is not easy to play tamborine. He's a pretty good percussionist. He's doing more than you think.

[jazzynlala]

Like Bob Marley said when music hits u feel no pain

[DrunkOnInk]

Can anyone tell me who that is on piano? I'm liking some of those licks...

[drjazz86]

That is Ron Burton on piano and Joe Texidor on percussion. I never thought the tambourine added substantially to the music, but RRK liked the authenticity of the sound.

[DrunkOnInk]

Thanks

[Neotron21]

Hardcore Jazz at it's best!!! Thanks for this upload!! and Thank You Youtube for rare videos like this!!!

[jazzonthetube]

So great!

[Funkbone]

Whoa, now that was amazing!

[omari7777]

true blackman

[motokichi1568]

Album name is "Volunteered Slavery".

亡きＭ.Ｌ.キング牧師に捧げた感動的な演奏です。

泣けるよね。

[ex1le444]

wow, awesome to see this, thx for posting.

[VultureWay]

It's Roland's birthday today!

(August, 7th)

[nicolas932]

someone know if this song is recorded on an album?

[vibrarob]

This is from Volunteered Slavery on Atlantic SD 1534

[BeenBad4U]

Jimi Hendrix was HIGHLY-influenced by Kirk and spoke highly of him. They reportedly jammed on 3/8/69 @ Ronnie Scott's Club in London, and Jimi recorded ALL of his jams!!! *****(((((10)))))*****

[ESSPIRIT1]

@BeenBad4U= STRANGE-OCCURENCE; ?-The-Musicians were together even 21/2 days; NEITHER JIMI HENDRIX or JIMMY HOPPS-the Drummer, used THEIR tape-recorders during those days\Nites. RAHSAAN & BAND Traveled-to: S. France that Sunday. pbw\that & Them :-)

[kajihohara]

Roland Kirk以外のメンバーの名前を教えて頂けませんか？？

よろしくお願いします！！

[85S03]

重力ピエロだ．．．

[rjleake]

Brilliant, thank you for sharing this with us. Genius!

[mootbooxle]

Stylophonin' it!! Rahsaan was a genius of music.

[irule168]

i want that hat

[bobgreen623]

This is cracking stuff, utterly brilliant, as is the version on the Volunteered Slavery LP. More music should be this wild and joyful, heartfelt and soulful, strong and free. Absolutely love it.

[BoboBerlinsky]

Rahsaan and his crew could perform musical magic. Musical Miracles!

[ilovecereal371]

The album version of "I Say A Little Prayer" is played at nearly double-time of this version and it is absolutely INSANE

[1988MaryJane]

ahahahaha mt bom

[PihaSandDunes]

LOL. Roland's actually playing a Stylaphone. I remember caterwauling with one of those when I was kid, never knew any one else that even owned one.

Interesting stuff, Kirk was one of a kind.

[DK4HL]

Roland met the guy who invented it and he told Roland all about it, so he knew about the instrument and the guy who invented it... nice eh!

[tat1685]

Who's the Menonite on tamourine?

[barrtok]

I would have said a leprechaun :D

->Joe Habao Texidor.

[sergelapelle]

That was the guy who used to lead Kirk out on stage and help him find the mic.

[tat1685]

Sort of a seeing eye Dutchman. Interesting. Freed of all those buttons and zippers, the guy really swings.

[sayitloud84]

cool!

[n8dogg87]

Roland Kirk uses circular breathing to a much better effect than Kenny 'hold-a-note-for-ten-minutes' G.

[andyszen]

Rolank Kirk was a musician

[n8dogg87]

That's the truth.

[solord]

Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a magician . . . and a musician.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a madman . . . and a genius.

Some have said that Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a clown . . .

Rahsaan Roland Kirk was an artist of surreal and abstract proportions.

His music was brilliant . . . And We All Should Say A Little Prayer For Him.

[valentynesuite]

@solord yesssssssssssssssssssss right right right

[ilovecereal371]

I like to call him Kenny "elevator music" G :)

[dougal92]

actually mental. just mental...

[bluv6]

Damn, damn, damn, DAMN that's beautiful. Reduces me to tears every time I see it.

[trane1959]

I think Brother Rahsaan's got Brother Malcom X back there playing some drum set.

[analbleediscool]

anyone know who's in the band?

[videolover61]

RRK was a serious genius...love his music...

[knobstick]

So are you an orange, Jimmy? Maybe if I tied my joke to a stick and poked you in the eye with it you might see it for what it was.

I play sax and I recognise Roland Kirk as a unique performer, the likes of which we'll never see again. Not many can play 2 saxes at once, the guy in Albert Collins' horn section (see youtube vids) and the late Dick Heckstall-Smith did but not with the facility of RRK.

As for Stylophone though, he's not a patch on Rolf Harris.

Shall I tie that to a stick?

[mchelland]

Christ.

[Legacyoftain]

I love the camera work at the end..captures the music well I think

[JoeySunB]

For lovers of RRk --rare record w. the great Al Hibbler "A mEEting Of the Times " (Atlantic SD 1630) is super !!!1972 doing Duke E. classics : Don' get around ,.... GREAT !!! - joey

[Johnflugelhorn]

No one will ever catch up with Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

[Legacyoftain]

This music is pure happiness.

[EMCEMITCH]

check out rhasaan on the mingus at carnegie hall-1974 on atlantic records

[npspec34]

Wild then,

Wild now.

Nobody plays two saxes at once anymore.

RRK did.

[schmater]

who thinks of dr king?

[LittleRedKing]

Wow ... That was something else!

[jimac51]

Rahsaan was one of the most amazing artists. Never quite got his due from jazz purists. But a true artist,a great intrepreter,a real showman and the definition of soul. Coltrane,Ray Charles,Duke-all music flowed through his veins. We heard you Rahasaan-your message was load,clear and true.

[STC4blues]

Incredible performer. The best I've ever seen.

[gattodipiombo]

fantastico

[solord]

True . . . but Amy Winehouse could never sound this good in her life . . . EVER!!!

[solord]

This is Like Coltrane on steroids after tripping on acid!!

God: This is Great Stuff!!!! Too Fucking Good! Too Sweet!!

[11RaWk]

hehe

stop fightin' ! d9

[CandyBuddah]

I love the way Roland introduces this song....BEAUTIFUL! Such a great, great musician! Absolutely underrated in the annals of jazz, if ya axe me!

[timwakefield]

At the beginning here and on the album version of it on Volunteered Slavery he does the opening about 'They shot him down.' Does anybody know for sure what he's talking about? I assume it's MLK Jr. because the album was recorded the same year he died but I'm just guessing.

Anyways thanks for this, it's incredible.

[BoboBerlinsky]

Yes Tim, that's what he talkin' bout.

[DK4HL]

yes, he had respect for all black people that stood up for their belief in themselves. He was blind but people told him he was black......eh! ! ! !He started up ''Vibration Society'' so you could be any colour as long as you had the right vibe.......

[joshuasound]

that is the great vernon martin on bass!! G-d bless him, he was an amazing musician. he had great spirit, insight, skill and love. G-d bless vernon and all the cats!!!

[RuDiger2]

This is just too damn good...