Lakeisha Benjamin
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Depression's here, but we're all still drinking and partying, right?
Now the band's job is to keep the dancers on the dance floor.
It's different when it's your job to keep the party going.
And the instrument that they called on for that was a saxophone.
People would go and just see Cal Basie band versus Duke Ellington band.
And they would just completely try to murder each other.
I'll just sing it even though it's going to sound terrible.
So I'm not sure if that's because all the men are in the war or wherever they are.
But the small group comes and I guess who's the founder of that?
We all say Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk were the three.
And they invent this style of music called bebop.
And this is really what we think of the saxophone as.