ROLAND KIRK Left & Right 1969 UK ATLANTIC 1st PRESS - NEAR MINT
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ROLAND KIRK Left & Right 1969 UK ATLANTIC 1st PRESS - NEAR MINT
ROLAND KIRKLeft & Right
1969 UK ATLANTIC (588 178) FIRST PRESSING
GREAT COPY OF THIS MASTERPIECE - PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE MATT TEXTURED RED/PLUM ATLANTIC LABELS
MATRIX: 588178 A//1 11 1 / 588178 B//1 11 2
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FRONT LAMINATED SLEEVE "Printed and made by MacNeill Press Ltd., London, S.E.1"
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE - DATE CODED '089' (August 1969)
The title of this album, Left and Right, no doubt refers to the sides of Roland Kirk's brain, which were both heavily taxed in the composing, arranging, conducting, and playing multi instruments on this recording.
For starters, the band is huge -- 17 players plus a 16-piece string section, all of it arranged and conducted by Kirk, a blind man.
Along with Kirk's usual crew of Ron Burton, Julius Watkins, Dick Griffin, Jimmy Hopps, and Gerald Brown, there are luminaries in the crowd including Alice Coltrane on harp, Pepper Adams on baritone saxophone, and Roy Haynes.
What it all means is this: The man who surprised and outraged everybody on the scene -- as well as blew most away -- was at it again here in "Expansions," his wildly ambitious and swinging post-Coltrane suite, which has "Black Mystery Has Been Revealed" as its prelude.
While there are other tracks on this record, this suite is its centrepiece and masterpiece -- despite killer readings of Billy Strayhorn's "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing" and "Quintessence."
"Expansions" has Kirk putting his entire harmonic range on display, and all of the timbral extensions he used in his own playing are charted for a string section to articulate. There are subtleties, of course, which come off as merely tonal variations in extant harmony with the other instruments, but when they are juxtaposed against a portrayal of the entire history of jazz -- from Jelly Roll Morton to the present day -- then they become something else: the storytellers, the timbres, and the chromatic extensions that point in the right direction and get listeners to stop in the right places. This is an extreme for Kirk -- extremely brilliant and thoroughly accessible.
Side 1:
Black Mystery Has Been Revealed (1:16)
Expansions (19:55)
Side 2:
Lady's Blues (3:45)
IX Love (3:38)
Hot Cha (3:21)
Quintessence (4:10)
I Waited For You (2:51)
A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing (3:55)
LABELS: EXCELLENT
Clean, unmarked labels - a few light spindle trails and faint mottling - nothing mahjor
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT
Both surfaces shine like-new with just a few harmless marks/scuffs
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Plays beautifully throughout with nothing to fault
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
Some creases to the laminate but all edges are sharp and all spine text is clear and bold
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