Few figures in jazz history have embodied the word original quite like Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Sightless from infancy, yet bursting with boundless vision, he turned live performance into theatre, ritual ...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk was way out there. Credit: The Case of the Three Sided Dream A master of saxophone, the stritch, the manzello, and flute, Kirk also played clarinet, harmonica, English horn, and ...
Most jazz fans are likely familiar with the visual images that are usually tagged onto the music of Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1935 -1977)—photos of a man in black sunglasses with three (or more) reed ...