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The five CDs of this still outrageous and hugely entertaining collection by probably one of the most inventive saxophonist in jazz history, Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The set collects in card LP replica sleeves, the first five original albums Kirk recorded for Atlantic between 1967 and 1971. They capture the concentrated power and vivid imagination of a multi-instrumentalist who could play three horns at once and make his own instruments.
Here, field holler and modern jazz balladry, rocking rhythm and blues, shouts and out-there abstraction are compressed into a single musical vision that roam at will through the legacy of African-American music.
Includes career-defining albums:
CD 1 · Here Comes the Whistleman (Atlantic SD 3007) 1967
CD 2 · The Inflated Tear (Atlantic SD 1507) 1968
CD 3 · Left & Right (Atlantic SD 1518) 1968
CD 4 · Volunteered Slavery (Atlantic SD 1534) 1969
CD 5 · Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata (Atlantic SD 1578) 1971
