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Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Requiem For Rahsaan

Brian Case, New Musical Express, 17 December 1977

THE DEATH of Rahsaan Roland Kirk at the age of 41, shortly after playing two concerts with his group, The Vibration Society, at Indiana University last week, rounds out a year that has already seen the premature demise of altoist Paul Desmond and pianist Hampton Hawes.

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