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Rahsaan Roland Kirk — The Entertainer
Album: The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color
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6.4

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Total ratings: 326









Released: 1975
Length: 6:01
Plays (last 30 days): 0
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 the_jake wrote:

I like it.  But it is a little on the big side {#Wink}

Comment loses all context - Missing the oversized sax emoji
Note  to self - enable gifs
 rpdevotee wrote:
I feel like I am watching a Saturday Night Live episode.
 On Quaaludes.


 stretcher wrote:
Nope.  2, and that's a gift.
 
Hey now, there's room for more than one Joplin on RP
Nope.  2, and that's a gift.
Works for me.
 be4con wrote:
Musical masturbation. This tune is so far up its own smug backside that it's choking on its soul patch.
 
Is that a negative or positive review?
Musical masturbation. This tune is so far up its own smug backside that it's choking on its soul patch.
Look, I'm not going to sit here and assert that The Entertainer can't be improved upon. But, uh, this ain't it.
Rasping and rollicking, a fun cover. Love the honkytonk piano :o)
Nah, doesn't work as a sleepy number.
I feel like I am watching a Saturday Night Live episode.
Paging Sally Rand.
Is somebody taking off their clothes? 

Va va va voom!
 Stephen_Phillips wrote:

How about one like this...

Saxophone player emoji 
 
I like it.  But it is a little on the big side {#Wink}
Kirk influenced a number of musicians, according to Wikipedia.  For example:

Ian Anderson, Leader and flautist Of Jehtro Tull recorded a version of Kirk's "Serenade to a Cuckoo" on their first album This Was (1968). Roland Kirk was the very reason Anderson thought he could bring a flute into rock music. Anderson learned Kirk’s vocalizing style on the flute and Anderson's flute playing became the signature element of Jethro Tull's sound. Kirk and Anderson took the flute's refined upper crust classical nature and commonized it. Anderson got to know Kirk at the 1969 Newport Jazz Festival where they both performed the same night. Anderson said of Kirk "There’s something about these colourful shamans. They can tease us, but we go along with it, because we know they’re touched by genius, but at the same time there’s a little bit of the snake oil for sale.”
Saxy. Very saxy. 
Very slow Muppet Show?
 the_jake wrote:

Eclectic indeed.   Need some horn, sax ,trombone playing emoji's.
 
How about one like this...

Saxophone player emoji 
This is what you need to play to make me squeal like a pig at a bloodshot moon
I aint complaining, thanks RP thats a 1
 nomnol wrote:
Love it! RP = variety.{#Dance}
 
Eclectic indeed.   Need some horn, sax ,trombone playing emoji's.
 IH574 wrote:
Some songs are better as covers.


 
And some songs are not.
Some songs are better as covers.

 

Roland Kirk is hardly "Smooth Jazz". 

rocklandlove wrote:
Smooth jazz on RP? No thank you!
 

Was that Bill Clinton on sax?  A bad Saturday Night Live midweek jam session with the GE Smith house band?  
Not feeling this at all.....

{#Ask}
Love it! RP = variety.{#Dance}
Smooth jazz on RP? No thank you!