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-'''Roland Kirk''', aka '''Rahsaan Roland Kirk''' (Ronald Theodore Kirk, August 7, 1936, Columbus, Ohio - December 5, 1977, Bloomington, Indiana) was a jazz composer and multi-instrumentalist, most famous for his dazzling musical experiments and ability to play several wind instruments at the same time.
+'''Roland Kirk''', aka '''Rahsaan Roland Kirk''' (Ronald Theodore Kirk, August 7, 1936, Columbus, [[Ohio]] - December 5, 1977, Bloomington, Indiana) was a jazz composer and multi-instrumentalist, most famous for his dazzling musical experiments and ability to play several wind instruments at the same time.
 ==Biography==

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 [[File:Zappa Roland Kirk.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Zappa, [[Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood]] and Roland Kirk performing together.]]
-Roland Kirk is mentioned in the list of influences inside the sleeve of ''[[Freak Out!]]'' (1966), under the heading: ''These People Have Contributed Materially In Many Ways To Make Our Music What It Is. Please Do Not Hold It Against Them''. In 1969 Zappa's band and Kirk's band performed together on stage twice, once during the [[Boston Globe Jazz Festival]] on 31 January and a second time on 29 June at the [[Florida Jazz Festival]]. <ref>http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/musicians/H-L.html</ref> <ref>http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/notes/1969.html</ref>
+Roland Kirk is mentioned in the list of influences inside the sleeve of ''[[Freak Out!]]'' (1966), under the heading: ''These People Have Contributed Materially In Many Ways To Make Our Music What It Is. Please Do Not Hold It Against Them''. In 1969 Zappa's band and Kirk's band performed together on stage twice, once during the [[Boston Globe Jazz Festival]] on 31 January and a second time on 29 June at the Florida Jazz Festival. <ref>http://donlope.net/fz/musicians/H-L.html</ref> <ref>http://donlope.net/fz/notes/1969.html</ref>
 ==Zappa about Roland Kirk==
-<blockquote> ''"I met him backstage at the [[Boston Globe Jazz Festival|Boston Jazz Festival]] and asked him to play with us if he was interested in our music. Then, during our set, led by his attendant, he came up to the stage. As you know he's blind, but his body understood all of our signals. At one point everybody in the band was supposed to get down on their back and kick their feet in the air while they still keep playing. As soon as we got on our back, he also got his back. When we got up, he also got up. He grasped everything. He is an excellent musician. Three weeks later we played together again at the [[Florida Jazz Festival]]."''</blockquote>
+<blockquote> ''"I met him backstage at the [[Boston Globe Jazz Festival|Boston Jazz Festival]] and asked him to play with us if he was interested in our music. Then, during our set, led by his attendant, he came up to the stage. As you know he's blind, but his body understood all of our signals. At one point everybody in the band was supposed to get down on their back and kick their feet in the air while they still keep playing. As soon as we got on our back, he also got his back. When we got up, he also got up. He grasped everything. He is an excellent musician. Three weeks later we played together again at the Florida Jazz Festival."''</blockquote>
 <div align="right">— [[Biography|Frank Zappa]], New Music Magazine interview, April 1976.</div>

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 <blockquote> ''"I met him backstage at the [[Boston Globe Jazz Festival|Boston Jazz Festival]] and asked him to play with us if he was interested in our music. Then, during our set, led by his attendant, he came up to the stage. As you know he's blind, but his body understood all of our signals. At one point everybody in the band was supposed to get down on their back and kick their feet in the air while they still keep playing. As soon as we got on our back, he also got his back. When we got up, he also got up. He grasped everything. He is an excellent musician. Three weeks later we played together again at the [[Florida Jazz Festival]]."''</blockquote>
-<div align="right">— [[Frank Zappa]], New Music Magazine interview, April 1976.</div>
+<div align="right">— [[Biography|Frank Zappa]], New Music Magazine interview, April 1976.</div>
 <blockquote> ''"The first time we played with Rahsaan Roland Kirk was at the (...) [[Boston Globe Jazz Festival]]. After his performance, when introduced to him backstage, I said I really liked what he was doing, and said that if he felt like joining us onstage during our set, he was more than welcome. In spite of his blindness, I believed we could accommodate whatever he wanted to do. We began our set, wending our atonal way toward a medley of 1950s-style honking saxophone numbers. During this fairly complicated, choreographed routine, Rahsaan, assisted by his helper (can't remember his name), decided to join in. In 1969, [[George Wein]], impresario of the [[Newport Jazz Festival]], decided it would be a tremendous idea to put the [[The Mothers|Mothers of Invention]] on a jazz tour of the East Coast. We wound up working in a package with [[Roland Kirk|Kirk]], [[Duke Ellington]] and [[Gary Burton]] in [[Miami]] at the [[Jai Alai Fronton]], and at another gig in South Carolina."''</blockquote>
-<div align="right">— [[Frank Zappa]], in ''[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]] (1989)''.</div>
+<div align="right">— [[Biography|Frank Zappa]], in ''[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]] (1989)''.</div>
 ==Notes==

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-[[File:Zappa Roland Kirk (2).jpg|500px|thumb|right|Zappa, [[Jim Sherwood]] and Roland Kirk performing together.]]
+[[File:Zappa Roland Kirk (2).jpg|500px|thumb|right|Zappa, [[Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood]] and Roland Kirk performing together.]]
 '''Roland Kirk''', aka '''Rahsaan Roland Kirk''' (Ronald Theodore Kirk, August 7, 1936, Columbus, Ohio - December 5, 1977, Bloomington, Indiana) was a jazz composer and multi-instrumentalist, most famous for his dazzling musical experiments and ability to play several wind instruments at the same time.
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 == Zappa and Roland Kirk==
-[[File:Zappa Roland Kirk.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Zappa, [[Jim Sherwood]] and Roland Kirk performing together.]]
+[[File:Zappa Roland Kirk.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Zappa, [[Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood]] and Roland Kirk performing together.]]
 Roland Kirk is mentioned in the list of influences inside the sleeve of ''[[Freak Out!]]'' (1966), under the heading: ''These People Have Contributed Materially In Many Ways To Make Our Music What It Is. Please Do Not Hold It Against Them''. In 1969 Zappa's band and Kirk's band performed together on stage twice, once during the [[Boston Globe Jazz Festival]] on 31 January and a second time on 29 June at the [[Florida Jazz Festival]]. <ref>http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/musicians/H-L.html</ref> <ref>http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/notes/1969.html</ref>

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 [[File:Zappa Roland Kirk (2).jpg|350px|thumb|right|Zappa, [[Jim Sherwood]] and Roland Kirk performing together.]]
-'''Roland Kirk''', aka '''Rahsaan Roland Kirk''' (Ronald Theodore Kirk, August 7, 1936, Columbus, Ohio - December 5, 1977, Bloomington, Indiana) was a jazz composer and multi-instrumentalist, most famous for his dazzling musical experiments and ability to play several wind instruments at the same time. Frank Zappa named him one of his influences.
+'''Roland Kirk''', aka '''Rahsaan Roland Kirk''' (Ronald Theodore Kirk, August 7, 1936, Columbus, Ohio - December 5, 1977, Bloomington, Indiana) was a jazz composer and multi-instrumentalist, most famous for his dazzling musical experiments and ability to play several wind instruments at the same time.
 ==Biography==
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 [[File:Zappa Roland Kirk.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Zappa, [[Jim Sherwood]] and Roland Kirk performing together.]]
-[[Roland Kirk]] is name-checked on the cover of ''[[Freak Out!]]'' (1966), under the heading ''These People Have Contributed Materially In Many Ways To Make Our Music What It Is. Please Do Not Hold It Against Them''. In 1969 Zappa's band and Kirk's band performed together on stage twice, once during the [[Boston Globe Jazz Festival]] on 31 January and a second time on 29 June at the [[Florida Jazz Festival]]. <ref>http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/musicians/H-L.html</ref> <ref>http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/notes/1969.html</ref>
+Roland Kirk is name-checked on the cover of ''[[Freak Out!]]'' (1966), under the heading ''These People Have Contributed Materially In Many Ways To Make Our Music What It Is. Please Do Not Hold It Against Them''. In 1969 Zappa's band and Kirk's band performed together on stage twice, once during the [[Boston Globe Jazz Festival]] on 31 January and a second time on 29 June at the [[Florida Jazz Festival]]. <ref>http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/musicians/H-L.html</ref> <ref>http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/notes/1969.html</ref>
 ==Zappa about Roland Kirk==
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 [[Category:Jazz Composers|Kirk, Roland]]
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 [[Category:Freak Out! (The List)|Kirk, Roland]]
 [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)|Kirk, Roland]]