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Lakeisha Benjamin

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Sax Appeal

Depression's here, but we're all still drinking and partying, right?

99% Invisible
Sax Appeal

Now the band's job is to keep the dancers on the dance floor.

99% Invisible
Sax Appeal

It's different when it's your job to keep the party going.

99% Invisible
Sax Appeal

And the instrument that they called on for that was a saxophone.

99% Invisible
Sax Appeal

They were even sax battles.

99% Invisible
Sax Appeal

People would go and just see Cal Basie band versus Duke Ellington band.

99% Invisible
Sax Appeal

And they would just completely try to murder each other.

99% Invisible
Sax Appeal

Their saxophone playing was real raunchy.

99% Invisible
Sax Appeal

I'll just sing it even though it's going to sound terrible.

99% Invisible
Sax Appeal

So I'm not sure if that's because all the men are in the war or wherever they are.

99% Invisible
Sax Appeal

But the small group comes and I guess who's the founder of that?

99% Invisible
Sax Appeal

We all say Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk were the three.

99% Invisible
Sax Appeal

And they invent this style of music called bebop.

99% Invisible
Sax Appeal

So we go from big band to bebop.

99% Invisible
Sax Appeal

That's Charlie Parker playing Cocoa.

99% Invisible
Sax Appeal

And this is really what we think of the saxophone as.

99% Invisible
Sax Appeal

Really intellectual music.

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