Rahsaan Roland Kirk was one of the purest and most fascinating jazz artists and composers of the post-war period. Blinded as a toddler by a nurse, he was a soulful and experimental musician and a romantic multi-instrumentalist who energetically defied his own physical limitations to become the very essence of jazz in all its free but gifted glory. He lo…
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