RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK — Prepare Thyself to Deal With a Miracle

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Album · 1973

Tracklist

A1 Salvation And Reminiscing 5:14
A2 Seasons 10:32
A2a One Mind Winter/Summer
A2b Ninth Ghost
A3 Celestial Bliss 5:47
B1 Saxophone Concerto 21:31
B1a Saxophone Miracle
B1b One Breath Beyond
B1c Dance Of Revolution

Total Time: 43:13

Line-up/Musicians

Backing Vocals(tracks A1,A3) – Dee Dee Bridgewater, Jeanne Lee
Clarinet – Rahsaan Roland Kirk (track A1)
Conductor – Dick Griffin (track A1)
Flute [Nose], Flute – Rahsaan Roland Kirk(track A2)
Performer [Black Mystery Pipes], Saxophone [Baby E Flat] – Rahsaan Roland Kirk (track A3)
Backing Vocals – Jeanne Lee (track B1)
Tenor Saxophone – Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Bass – Henry Pearson
Cello – Kermit Moore
Drums – Robert Shy
English Horn, Oboe – Harry Smiles
Percussion – Ralph MacDonald, Sonny Brown
Piano – Ron Burton
Trombone – Dick Griffin
Trumpet – Charles McGhee
Viola – Al Brown
Violin – Gayle Dixon, Julien Barber, Sanford Allen, Selwart Clarke

About this release

Atlantic – SD-1640 (US)

Recorded At Regent Sound Studios, New York City

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Roland switches between more avant-garde pieces and more spiritual pieces. We get an incredible calm on Seasons right after an uneccesarily repetitive and somewhat lacking opener which feels experimental for the sake of it. This ars gratia artis behavior largely succeeds when atmosphere comes into place. But even though Seasons is an improvement over the opener, while the calm is beautiful, sometimes it can be a little too much, as if there's really not much diversification between each part of a song. So in the end our experience is mostly ups and downs. Celestial Bliss is a different track, using a little bit of funk to create a tribal and rustic feel, like listening to some friends play jazz around a campfire. It had its charm throughout the whole track.

The second half is made up of one 20-minute track: Saxophone Concerto, which is also divided into three connected sections. The first of these is Saxophone Miracle, which is hardly miraculous and more standard for avant-garde compositions. It's a nice beat but that's about it. In fact, it feels more like post-bop by complete accident. This is fixed after about six-and-a-half minutes when the music becomes more hypnotic and nocturnal on the second third, One Breath Beyond. Unfortunately, this section eventually just focuses on repitition for mood, and gets overdone. The third act, Dance of Revolution, brings out the free jazz and keeps things both serene and complex, bringing the epic to a good close.

Overall, the whole album was fairly well put together but still left me wanting. The first half gradually got better, but the second half wasn't as well-written as it could've been.

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