From Toilets to Tenors: How Karen Borca's Bassoon Revolutionized Free Jazz

In a move so audacious, it sounds like something out of a surrealist film, Karen Borca somehow managed to turn the humblest of instruments – the bassoon – into a game-changing force in avant-garde music. Five decades of boundary-pushing performances have cemented her status as one of the most innovative musicians of all time.