Two books dive into the history of minimalist music and the origins of the saxophone
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The Story of the Saxophone
Lisa Klein Ransom and James Ransom make kids picture books together. Their latest, the story of the saxophone is just that but it's also the story of its Belgian inventor Antoine Joseph Sax. The 2001 PBS documentary Jazz, which they watched together helped inspire their latest children's book.
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