Rahsaan Roland Kirk at the 1975 Downbeat Awards performing Pedal Up. Bumpschool post number 103 is a centum tribute to the subject of number 3; Confabulation At the Zoo. Kirk is a soul-spirit-gale force blast, and is here joined by McCoy Tyner, Stanley Clark, and Lenny White on drums. A much longer version of Pedal Up can be heard on Kirk's 1972 live double, Bright Moments. Rahsaan and McCoy's solos are a bumpthump upside the head. I'm not sure why, but we get a camera shot of an uncomfortable looking Chick Corea (5:06) at the end of Kirks blasteroo. What gives Chick? Difficult to say, but I'm thinking CC may have been mortified at the sight of McCoy Tyner's superdope sunshine yellow turtleneck. Chick realized he had been out yellowed, and it was too late to go blue.
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