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Jazz legend Rahsaan Roland Kirk was known for playing multiple instruments at once and for his comical and political interjections on stage, creating music about his experience of becoming blind as an infant. Through communicating sonically with his surroundings, Kirk developed a unique ability to see in music, as everyday items were re-imagined as instruments and each seemingly insignificant noise revealed its own rhythm and cadence. A child prodigy, adult visionary, and political activist, Kirk played music until the day he died.

"Eccentric personalities were hardly rare during jazz's most productive decades…but few performers made for as diverting a stage presence as Rahsaan Roland Kirk…(This) vibrant doc focuses on archival clips to get at the heart of its subject's distinctive art." —The Hollywood Reporter