Fwd: [Harp-L] Nose flute and ambient musicality

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jason Ricci" <jason@xxxx> 
wrote:
Have you heard roland kirk Play the nose flute??? huh...Huh have you. 
Take
that!
JR
 
Or take any damn object in a room. I once saw Rahsaan play a magazine 
rack - the old whirligig wire kind that rotated. He had it filled with 
tiny tape recorders of people making strange noises, macabre laughs, 
that sort of thing. He'd set the thing off with his hip at the 
strangest moments, but always on purpose - he could make you cry in the 
middle of a ballad with that thing emitting the most inappropriate 
squawks.

He was one of those people whose every utterance could be musical - 
like Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Little Walter, Betty Carter.

Winslow