| Bright Moments | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | Rahsaan Roland Kirk |
| Cover: | Bright Moments.jpg |
| Recorded: | June 8–9, 1973 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Label: | Atlantic |
| Producer: | Joel Dorn |
| Prev Title: | Prepare Thyself to Deal With a Miracle |
| Prev Year: | 1973 |
| Next Title: | The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color |
| Next Year: | 1975 |
Bright Moments is a live album by the jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk, recorded at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, in June 1973 and released in 1974.[1] [2] It contains performances by Kirk with Ron Burton, Todd Barkan, Henry Mattathias Pearson, Robert Shy and Joe "Habao" Texidor.
The AllMusic review by Steve Huey states: "Rahsaan Roland Kirk's live club gigs were usually engaging, freewheeling affairs, full of good humor and a fantastically wide range of music. The double album Bright Moments (reissued as a double CD) is a near-definitive document of the Kirk live experience, and his greatest album of the '70s. The extroverted Kirk was in his element in front of an audience, always chatting, explaining his concepts, and recounting bits of jazz history. Even if some of his long, jive-talking intros can sound a little dated today, it's clear in the outcome of the music that Kirk fed voraciously off the energy of the room... Bright Moments empties all the major items out of Kirk's bag of tricks, providing a neat microcosm of his talents and displaying a consummate and knowledgeable showman. In short, it's nothing less than a tour de force."
All compositions by Rahsaan Roland Kirk except as indicated.