December 2009
Do you think this is a strange reason to play musical instruments?
I play them mainly because my father isn’t living with me (im now 14). My mother and father separated a year after i was born. Both me and my mother discovered that when im surrounded by music, i am calmer than normal. Even though they separated a long time ago, i still cry about it [...]
Bringing a musical instrument abroad?
Im lucky enough to be travelling to America for a month in July. However, I need to bring my clarinet with me.
Does anyone know the rules/regulations that involve bringing instruments on an aeroplane. Can I carry it on in one hand, and hand luggage in the other hand.
Or do I have to put it into [...]
Pulmonary Stenosis and Playing a Musical Instrument (Woodwind/Brass)?
The time has come for my 8 year old son to pick an instrument in school. He wants to play the bassoon, but that may not happen for awhile due to availability of a short-reach bassoon.
Anyhow, he could start on the clarinet or oboe to work towards a bassoon. I took him into a music [...]
Jazz Icons 3: Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Live In ‘63 & ‘67
Jazz Icons: Rahsaan Roland Kirk presents three astounding concerts by this musical superhero playing his entire instrumental arsenal of saxophone, flute, manzello, stritch, clarinet, siren and whistles—oftentimes
simultaneously!
Kirk Is backed by extraordinary side musicians including legendary bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, drummers Alex Riel and Daniel Humair, and long-time pianist Ron Burton who keep the fire and [...]
Roland Kirk Montreux 1975 (4/4): Bright Moments, part 2
Rahsaan Roland Kirk with Hilton Ruiz (p), Henry Pete Pearson (b), Sonny Brown (d), Todd Barkan (perc). playing “Bright Moments”
‘Montreux Jazz Festival’, “Casino De Montreux”, Switzerland, July 18, 1975.
Duration : 0:3:25
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