| Title | : | The Story of the Saxophone |
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| Author | : | Lesa Cline-Ransome |
| Release | : | 2023-05-30 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Kids & Young Adults |
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| 1 | The Story of the Saxophone | Lesa Cline-Ransome |
| You may think that the story of the saxophone begins with Dexter Gordon or Charlie Parker or on a street corner in New Orleans. It really began in 1840 in Belgium with a young daydreamer named Joseph-Antoine Adolphe Sax—a boy with bad luck but great ideas. Coretta Scott King Honoree Lesa Cline-Ransome unravels the fascinating history of how Adolphe's once reviled instrument was transported across Europe and Mexico to New Orleans. Follow the saxophone's journey from Adolphe's imagination to the pawn-shop window where it caught the eye of musician Sidney Bechet and became the iconic symbol of jazz music it is today. |
