Dog Years in the Fourth Ring

No jazz instrumentalist before Rahsaan Roland Kirk had his antic imagination and self-conscious technical skills, and none after has gotten a hairsbreadth close. As heard on this wide-ranging three-CD collection, Dog Years in the Fourth Ring, Kirk juggled musical genres as easily as he did a huge swath of saxophones and flutes, thumbing his nose good-naturedly as he dashed all notions of refinement and constriction. B