One of the most innovative jazz musicians of the ’60s and ’70s, Rahsaan Roland Kirk was most famous for playing three or four wind instruments simultaneously. He got this idea — and many others — from a vivid dream. Simon Rentner found out how Kirk’s dream world inspired a lifetime of unusual creativity.
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