Bright Moments, the first biography of legendary jazz musician Rahsaan Roland Kirk, establishes once and for all the brilliant multi-instrumentalist's place in the pantheon of jazz giants alongside Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. Bright Moments chronicles the tumultuous life of the neglected genius through enlightening observations and hilarious anecdotes by Kirk's friends and family, as well as by famous contemporaries such as Quincy Jones, Allen Ginsberg, Yusef Lateef, Eric Burdon, Ken Kesey, and Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson.

JOHN KRUTH is a musician and writer of poetry and short fiction, contributor to Rolling Stone, and co-producer with Joel Dorn of a three-CD box set of Rahsaan's rare live tracks, Dog Year in the Fourth Ring.

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