Inflated Tear [Import]

Rahsaan Roland Kirk | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 17, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Rhino/Wea UK
• ASIN: B00006H67P
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,953 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Black And Crazy Blues

2. A Laugh For Rory

3. Many Blessings

4. Fingers In The Wind

5. The Inflated Tear

6. The Creole Love Call

7. A Handful Of Fives

8. Fly By Night

9. Lovellevelliloqui

10. Im Glad There Is You (Bonus Track)

Editorial Reviews

2002 remastered reissue of 1967 album includes one bonus track, 'I'm Glad There Is You'. Digipak. Warner Jazz.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars God has a name, April 8, 2005

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littlewing "littlewing1430" (Mumbai India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inflated Tear (Audio CD)

Buy everything this guy has to offer becos' you may never get to hear the likes of this again.

Kirk is an otherworldly musician - like Trane, Miles, Hendrix... He does things that leave you wondering if there are any rules left in music. Obviously not.

This album's title track takes on a freakish significance as it was created after Kirk had an acid trip in which he relived the callousness of a nurse who blinded him when he was an infant.

Yet he could see more than most.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Roland Kirk's Finest Hour, March 16, 2006

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Earl Manley (NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Inflated Tear (Audio CD)

Roland Kirk's music is jazz by definition but in reality it is s unclassifiable: a completely original performer whose style encompasses his early New Orleans roots, through swing and bebop, to the abstraction of the 1960s and 1970s avant-garde. This CD is, in my opinion, his finest work. From the opening chords of the Black and Crazy Blues Roland takes the listener on a ride that is unmatched in virtuosity by any other performer regardless of their musical idiom. While Inflated Tear is Kirk's spiritual essay about his sightless life, it is a musical tone poem for the listener taking us to places seldom visited. It is truly a masterpiece. Highly recommended

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing inflated about Kirk, June 8, 2008

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Nikica Gilic - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inflated Tear (Audio CD)

This magnificent musician is one of the true treasures of American jazz;
before I actually started listening to him I was a bit suspicious about his multiinstrumentalism, but he uses his numerous (and often strange) horns and whistles as a musician - there is nothing flashy or inflated in what I heard of him so far (incidently; the title of the album refers to Kirk's medical problems connected to his blindness...).

But, if you want to know, on the cover of this fine Atlantic album they say he plays tenor sax, Manzello, stritch, clarinet, flute, whistle AND "English horn or flexafone"...

The rest of the group are Ron Burton (p), Steve Novosel (b) and Jimmy Hopps (dm), plus Dick Griffith (tb) on "Fly by Night"...