View basket “You’re Under Arrest” has been added to your basket. Blacknuss Rahsaan Roland Kirk SKU: PPAN SD-11601 Barcode: 5060149623107 34.00 £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Pure Pleasure Released Date: 1st January 2020 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Re-mastering by: Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London From its opening bars, with Bill Salter’s bass and Rahsaan’s flute passionately playing Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine”, you know this isn’t an ordinary Kirk album (were any of them?). As the string section, electric piano, percussion, and Cornel Dupree’s guitar slip in the back door, one can feel the deep soul groove Kirk is bringing to the jazz fore here. As the tune fades just two and a half minutes later, the scream of Kirk’s tenor comes wailing through the intro of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Goin’ On”, with a funk backdrop and no wink in the corner — he’s serious. With Richard Tee’s drums kicking it, the strings developing into a wall of tension in the backing mix, and Charles McGhee’s trumpet hurling the long line back at Kirk, all bets are off — especially when they medley the mother into “Mercy Mercy Me”. By the time they reach the end of the Isleys’ “I Love You, Yes I Do”, with the whistles, gongs, shouting, soul crooning, deep groove hustling, and greasy funk dripping from every sweet-assed note, the record could be over because the world has already turned over and surrendered — and the album is only ten minutes old! “Blacknuss”, like “The Inflated Tear”, “Volunteered Slavery”, “Rip, Rig And Panic”, and “I Talk To The Spirits”, is Kirk at his most visionary. He took the pop out of pop and made it Great Black Music. He took the jazz world down a peg to make it feel its roots in the people’s music, and consequently made great jazz from pop tunes in the same way his forbears did with Broadway show tunes. While the entire album shines like a big black sun, the other standouts include a deeply moving read of “My Girl” and a version of “The Old Rugged Cross” that takes it back forever from those white fundamentalists who took all the blood and sweat from its grain and replaced them with cheap tin and collection plates. On Kirk’s version, grace doesn’t come cheap, though you can certainly be a poor person to receive it. Ladies and gents, “Blacknuss” is as deep as a soul record can be and as hot as a jazz record has any right to call itself. A work of sheer blacknuss! Personnel: “Blacknuss” – Rahsaan Roland Kirk (ts, fl, manzello, stritch, whistle, gong, voc); Dick Griffin (tb); Charles McGhee (tp); Billy Butler (g); Richard Tee (p); Mickey Turner (org); Henry Pearson (b); Bernard Purdie, Khalil Mhdri (dr); Arthur Jenkins (cga, perc); a.o. Artist Rahsaan Roland Kirk Genre Jazz Label Pure Pleasure Buying Options 180g 1LP Format 180g , 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Side 1: 1. Ain't No Sunshine 2a. What's Goin' On 2b. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) 3. Take Me Girl, I'm Ready 4. I Love You Yes I Do 5. My Girl 6. Which Way Is It Going 7. One Nation Side 2: 1. Never Can Say Goodbye 2. Old Rugged Cross 3. Make It With You 4. 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