samedi 18 août 2012

Rahsaan Ronald Kirk



La canicule va s'installer dans le Sud et nous force de rester à l'abri dans l'après midi.
Donc on va faire des choses dans la piscine ou dans la maison  et certains, comme moi,
ont commencé de revoir ces vinyls  et écouter de la bonne musique.

Et l'hasard est tombé sur un vieux vinyl 'Blacknuss' de Ronald 'Rahsaan' Kirk  avec la chanson:
'Old Rugged Cross' une mélange de gospel, blues et jazz avec des paroles émouvantes sur 'les croix'
que tout le monde doit porter pendant la vie.




Now there's the black cross, the green cross, the white cross, the double cross, the criss-cross, and the lost cross. And the cross gets awful heavy at different times, but one is supposed to keep on going on and carrying the cross on his shoulder, because you ain't supposed to let no cross cross you up. You're supposed to let a cross help you get across. And if you let a cross help you get across, you won't get crossed up but you'll be on the cross 'cause you done got across on the cross. So if you can remember this, you won't get lost on the cross while you're trying to get across. So we're just here to let you know about it. I know that you knew already, 'cause y'all the hippest people in the world, hip black and white. But you still know that you got a cross you must deal with. So when it crosses you up, go on and deal with it, and leave it alone.

Old Rugged Cross (Blacknuss) 





http://www.alfanet.hu/kirk/

La dictionnaire de jazz dit de Kirk: privilégiant la matière sonore plus que la phrase musicale, il est en
jazz le créateur exemplaire d'une atmosphère oû  le rêve, la musique, la parole, le chant, l'humour, la fureur et la paix se répondent.

All Music Guide to Jazz dit: arguably the most exciting saxophone soloist in jazz history, Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a post modernist before that term even existed. Kirk played the continuum of jazz tradition as an instrument unto itself; he felt little compunction about mixing and matching elements from the music's history, and his concoctions usually seemed natural, if not inevitable.

Rahsaan Ronald Kirk est mort en 1977; sa veuve Dorthaan travaille toujours au WBGO Jazzstation à Newark.

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