That Moaning Saxophone: The Six Brown Brothers and the Dawning of a Musical Craze

by Bruce Vermazen (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $28.81

• New

  Hardcover
  2004

  $117.50

  After its invention in France in 1838, the saxophone, Vermazen argues, was finally brought to the American public by the Six Brown Brothers, one of the most famous musical stage acts of the early 20th century. This title explores how they turned an instrument once derided as the Siren of Satan , into the crowning symbol of jazz.