Rahsaan Roland Kirk "The Case Of The 3 Sided Dream In Audio Color" 1975

Perhaps I am an apologist for Rahsaan Roland Kirk, I don't know. If I am then I should be smacked, because he needed no one to make apologies for him. The Case of the 3-Sided Dream in Audio Color is a case in point...
...The namby-pamby jazz critics, those "serious" guys who look for every note to be in order before they'll say anything positive, can shove it on this one. They panned the hell out of it in 1975, claiming it was "indulgent." Okay. Which Kirk record wasn't? Excess was always the name of the game for Kirk, but so was the groove, and here on this three-sided double LP, groove is at the heart of everything. Surrounding himself with players like Cornell Dupree, Hugh McCracken, Richard Tee, Hilton Ruiz (whose playing on "Echoes of Primitive Ohio and Chili Dogs" is so greasy, so deliciously dirty it's enthralling), Steve Gadd, and others from that soul-jazz scene, it's obvious what you're gonna get, right? Nope. From his imitations of Miles Davis and John Coltrane on "Bye, Bye, Blackbird" to his screaming, funky read on "High Heel Sneakers" to his Delta-to-New-Orleans version of "The Entertainer," Kirk is deep in the groove. But the groove he moves through is one that is so large, so universal, deep, and serene, that it transcends all notions of commercialism versus innovation. Bottom line, even with the charming tape-recorded ramblings of his between tunes, this was his concept and it works like a voodoo charm. Here's one for the revisionists: This record jams. - The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color Review by Thom Jurek
Members:
Baritone Saxophone – Pat Patrick / Bass – Francisco Centeno, Metathias Pearson, Bill Salter / Congas – Lawrence Killian / Congas, Percussion – Ralph MacDonald / Drums – John Goldsmith, Sonny Brown, Steven Gadd / Guitar – Cornell Dupree, Hugh McCracken, Keith Loving / Keyboards – Arthur Jenkins, Hilton Ruiz, Richard Tee / Tenor Saxophone, Bass Saxophone, Flute, Trumpet, Saxophone [Manzello] – Rahsaan Roland Kirk

traxfromwax:
1 Conversation 2 Bye Bye Blackbird 3 Horses (Monogram/Republic) 4 High Heel Sneakers 5 Dream 6 Echoes Of Primitive Ohio And Chili Dogs 7 The Entertainer (Done In The Style Of The Blues) 8 Freaks For The Festival 9 Dream 10 Portrait Of Those Beautiful Ladies 11 Dream 12 The Entertainer 13 Dream 14 Dream 15 Portrait Of Those Beautiful Ladies 16 Dream 17 Freaks For The Festival 18 sesroH 19 Bye Bye Blackbird 20 Conversation 21 + 22 Side D is pressed with an almost completely silent track interspersed with a few telephone conversations
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