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

[Joel Fritz <jfritz666@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Winslow Yerxa wrote:
> --- 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

In the early seventies in my third time in college I took a music 
appreciation class called History of Jazz.  It was taught by a piano 
player named Merrill Hoover who was one of those under the radar people. 
 He specialized in accompanying singers--toured with Ella Fitzgerald 
for many years.  Kirk happened to be playing in SF and Hoover got him to 
come to our class.  I'd heard him on records, but from less than ten 
feet away in a quiet well lit room it was like seeing God.  He had his 
own system of keeping track of his miscellaneous small equipment that 
involved huge amounts of masking tape.  He looked like a christmas tree 
decorated by someone who was very eccentric.

Any object in a room borders on understatement.


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