Ovation & Roland’s Remarks

"One more time, Roland Kirk! Roland Kirk's gone. Roland went to get his hat. Come on out here, Roland! Yeah!"

"I don't have time"

"Well, take it out of my time! Take it out of my time. Roland Kirk!"

"Thank you. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, for your kind applause. This is our first real appearance at Newport and we appreciate your kind attention and we, we admit we started off, started off to a slow start, because I wasn't looking at my piano player and I've been smoking a little bit too much. I was totally blind when I came on here. But Vernon Martin again on the bass, Ron Burton on the piano, Jimmy Hops on the drums

If you don't mind, we'd like to play a short, short interlude, short dedication to one of the giants of the tenor saxophone, and I was playing this before he split, so I dig him very much. This is a memorial and a short medley of tunes that John Coltrane left here for us to learn."