Bryant Jones has been playing keyboards for more than 50 years. It’s the connective thread through a life of changes.

He started in the late Sixties playing a keyboard his father bought for his 14th birthday. One year later, on his 15th birthday, life took an unconscionable, unalterable turn.

Coming up on his 65th birthday this month, Bryant sat down with Humanitou. He shares how he came to live and play improvisationally, about his musical influences and a day working alongside one of them.

He talks about being rescued from a mental hospital by a cousin, embracing the love and peace of the counterculture, and playing his way (almost) to the top of Pikes Peak.

Read the full story here.

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