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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 Khalil Mhrdi'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!
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
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LEW HAHN, RecordingEngineer - Billy Butler, Guitar - Bill Withers, Writer - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, Vocals, MainArtist - Joe Habad Texidor, Percussion - Khalil Mhrdi, Drums - Sonelius Smith, Piano
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured and Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1972 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Renaldo Benson, Writer - Alfred Cleveland, Writer - Bernard Purdie, Drums - Cornell Dupree, Guitar - Richard Tee, Piano - Marvin Gaye, Writer - Bill Salter, Contributor - Keith Loving, Guitar - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist - Bob Liftin, RecordingEngineer - Charles McGhee, Trumpet - Dick Griffin, Trombone - Joe Habad Texidor, Percussion - Mickey Tucker, Organ
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured and Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1972 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Bernard Purdie, Drums - Cornell Dupree, Guitar - Richard Tee, Piano - Patrick Milligan, Contributor - Keith Loving, Guitar - Chris Clarke, Contributor - FAYE Rosen, Contributor - Ginger Spangler, Contributor - Mark Pinkus, Contributor - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist - Chris Allen, Writer - Bob Liftin, RecordingEngineer - Charles McGhee, Trumpet - Dick Griffin, Trombone - Joe Habad Texidor, Percussion - Mickey Tucker, Organ - Johnny Camerson, Writer
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured and Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1972 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Pam Sawyer, Writer - Bernard Purdie, Drums - Cornell Dupree, Guitar - Richard Tee, Piano - Johnny Bristol, Writer - Keith Loving, Guitar - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist - Bob Liftin, RecordingEngineer - Charles McGhee, Trumpet - Dick Griffin, Trombone - Joe Habad Texidor, Percussion - Mickey Tucker, Organ - LaVern Ware, Writer
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured and Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1972 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Ronald White, Writer - Bernard Purdie, Drums - Cornell Dupree, Guitar - Richard Tee, Piano - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Writer - Keith Loving, Guitar - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, Vocals, MainArtist - Bob Liftin, RecordingEngineer - Charles McGhee, Trumpet - Dick Griffin, Trombone - Joe Habad Texidor, Percussion - Mickey Tucker, Organ
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured and Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1972 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Bernard Purdie, Drums - Cornell Dupree, Guitar - Richard Tee, Piano - Keith Loving, Guitar - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, Writer, MainArtist - Bob Liftin, RecordingEngineer - Charles McGhee, Trumpet - Dick Griffin, Trombone - Joe Habad Texidor, Percussion - Mickey Tucker, Organ
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured and Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1972 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Bernard Purdie, Drums - Cornell Dupree, Guitar - Richard Tee, Piano - Keith Loving, Guitar - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist - Bob Liftin, RecordingEngineer - Charles McGhee, Trumpet - Dick Griffin, Trombone - Joe Habad Texidor, Percussion - Mickey Tucker, Organ - Princess Patience Burton, Vocals, Writer
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured and Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1972 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
LEW HAHN, RecordingEngineer - Billy Butler, Guitar - Cissy Houston, Vocals - Clifton Davis, Writer - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, Vocals, MainArtist - Joe Habad Texidor, Percussion - Khalil Mhrdi, Drums - Sonelius Smith, Piano
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured and Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1972 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Bernard Purdie, Drums - Cornell Dupree, Guitar - Richard Tee, Piano - Traditional, Writer - Patrick Milligan, Contributor - Keith Loving, Guitar - Chris Clarke, Contributor - FAYE Rosen, Contributor - Ginger Spangler, Contributor - Mark Pinkus, Contributor - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Arranger, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist - Bob Liftin, RecordingEngineer - Charles McGhee, Trumpet - Dick Griffin, Trombone - Joe Habad Texidor, Percussion - Mickey Tucker, Organ
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured and Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1972 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Bernard Purdie, Drums - Cornell Dupree, Guitar - Richard Tee, Piano - DAVID GATES, Writer - Keith Loving, Guitar - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist - Bob Liftin, RecordingEngineer - Charles McGhee, Trumpet - Dick Griffin, Trombone - Joe Habad Texidor, Percussion - Mickey Tucker, Organ
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured and Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1972 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
LEW HAHN, RecordingEngineer - Billy Butler, Guitar - Cissy Houston, Vocals - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Joe Habad Texidor, Percussion - Khalil Mhrdi, Drums - Sonelius Smith, Piano
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured and Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1972 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Album review
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 Khalil Mhrdi'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!
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:42:49
- Main artists: Rahsaan Roland Kirk
- Label: Rhino Atlantic
- Genre: Jazz
© 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured and Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 2005 Atlantic Recording Corp. Manufactured and Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing.
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