The Story of the Saxophone Audiobook By Lesa Cline-Ransome, James E. Ransome - illustrator cover art

The Story of the Saxophone

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The Story of the Saxophone

By: Lesa Cline-Ransome, James E. Ransome - illustrator
Narrated by: Cary Hite
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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.

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