Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata
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| Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata | ||||
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| Released | 1971 | |||
| Recorded | January 26 & February 4, 1971 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata is an album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk featuring performances by Kirk with accompaniment by drummer Maurice McKinley and percussionist Joseph "Habao" Texidor, and with Sonelius Smith on piano on three tracks.[2]
The album was originally released by Atlantic Records.[2] It was first released on CD in 1998, by 32 Records.[3] The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states: "The performances are episodic and colorful with plenty of humor and adventurous moments, worthy of repeated listenings and amazement".[1] The JazzTimes wrote that Kirk "forces the listener to hear his multi-horn free associations and his serpentine asides not as charming, off-center diversions, but as pointedly structuralist works".[4]
