Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk, known earlier in his career simply as Roland Kirk, was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute, and many other instruments. He was renowned for hi
Kirk performing in 1972
Kirk arriving at Schiphol in Amsterdam, 1964. His first wife, Edith, walks beside him.
Kirk at Lanchester Polytechnic, 1972
Kirk playing simultaneously his "manzello" (left), "stritch" (center), and tenor saxophone; Helinski Jazz Festival, 1964
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The saxophone is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
…Burt Bacharach, as well as Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, and other jazz musicians. Kirk played and collected many musical instruments, mainly multiple saxophones, clarinets, and flutes. His primary saxophones were a standard tenor saxophone, "stritch" (a straight alto saxophone lacking the instrument's conventional…
Tenor saxophone mouthpieces, ligatures, reed, and cap
Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone
In a rare early inclusion in an orchestral score, the saxophone was used in Gioachino Rossini's Robert Bruce (1846)
A US Seventh Fleet Band sailor with a tenor saxophone in Hong Kong