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Kirk, Rahsaan Roland – The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color – Used LP
Kirk, Rahsaan Roland – The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color – Used LP
Atlantic Records

Kirk, Rahsaan Roland – The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color – Used LP

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vinyl: VG

sleeve: G+

 

Another simply stunning set from Kirk. panned by jazz critics, the best jazz album ever recorded for me, blow the whistle and bust out the grooves, move on into and move on out.  There's nothing worse than jazz, especially when it's indulgent and excessive.  And then came Kirk to prove to me that everything is everything, and everything that I thought was wrong, and if I was wrong and everything is everything, then I've been wrong about everything all the time.  Three sides east of Eden, this side of heaven shaking the dusty devils from the tail. -- winch (green noise)

 

Review by Thom Jurek:

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.

 


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