Blog: Doklands

As a kid, I'm sure I must have seen Rahsaan Roland Kirk on the telly. I definitely saw footage of someone playing two saxophones at once, and encountering this at an impressionable age meant that it seemed like a perfectly sensible sort of thing to do. Kirk didn't just leave it there though. Sometimes when both saxes were going, he'd add a flute and play it with his nose. I've got to say that is showing off a bit. The whole twin sax thing, however, really isn't a gimmick. He played that way [...]

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