The Story of the Saxophone: Library Edition

By: 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.

• Format: Audio CD
• ISBN: B0CPJFVYCY
• ISBN13: 9798212992350
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media Llc