Jazz
One of the most inventive saxophonists in jazz history, Rahsaan Roland Kirk could play several horns at once, and make his own instruments. By no means a novelty act, his technique was flawless. Blind from the age of two, while a teenager, he discovered the "manzello" and "stritch" - the former, a modified version of the saxello, which was itself a slightly curved variant of the B flat soprano sax; the latter, a modified straight E flat alto. |
