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Re: Holding two clarinets

Author: ghuba
Date: 2008-02-26 00:13

Author: Ken Shaw (---.dyn.optonline.net - ISP in Brooklyn, NY United States)
Date: 2008-02-25 11:03

Get some pictures of Roland Kirk, who did this all the time, particularly with saxophones.

Ken Shaw
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Roland Kirk (or as he was later known as Rahsaan Roland Kirk) would often play a manzello and a stritch (both antique saxophone-like instruments that were pitched in such as way that they complemented a tenor saxophone) simultaneously, sometimes while also playing a tenor sax and even once in a while with a nose flute going at the same time. His classic recording of Sweet Georgia Brown has him simultaneously playing tenor sax and the nose flute. Other times he was playing flute and nose flute simultaneously, or playing a flute and grabbing one of the three saxes hanging off his neck to play a new riff. And Kirk was also one of the earliest jazz masters of circular breathing so he could keep all of these instruments going on solos that seemed to last forever. Unique talent who was great to see live. There are lots of clips of his playing on www.YouTube.com. Kirk had amazing muscular and musical control at all times and in a musical idiom (jazz) that prides itself on individuality, perhaps might be regarded as the most "individual" or "unique" player of all time. Darn good trumpet player also.

George

Post Edited (2008-02-26 01:23)

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