Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest bargain in music comes to the Jazz Workshop on 733 Boylston St. this weekend. He's Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the blind jazz musician who plays, not one, but three horns at once...
...Kirk's history is one of the strangest of all musicians. He fell victim to hospital malpractice at the age of two--"I think a nurse put too much medicine in my eyes, and my mother didn't find out about it until it was too late"--and he has been blind to everything except lights and darks and his own dreams for three decades. But dreams have been enough of an inspiration for this bizarre musician...
...Kirk, who started his musical career playing a water hose, once had a strange dream about 20 years ago. He saw himself playing three horns. He recognized one immediately, the tenor sax, his native instrument...
...other two horns, the mazello, a kind of soprano sax, and the stritch, an alto variety, were instruments that Kirk was to name and create...
...dreams have meant a lot to Kirk's career (he even found his first name "Rahsaan" in one of them) and he has stuck by three horn proposition ever since...