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Average rating: 4.03 · 344 ratings · 42 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Devil's Horn: The Story...

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“And where jazz music was concerned, there was a saying, Segodnia on igraet dzhaz, a zavtra rodinu prodast: Today you play jazz, tomorrow you betray the motherland.” Igor,”
Michael Segell, The Devil's Horn: The Story of the Saxophone, from Noisy Novelty to King of Cool

“Later, there were several great white players, as there are today. But when it first matured, it was a black instrument. The saxophone was outside the system and the Negro was on the fringes of society. Together they found their voice.” Evoking”
Michael Segell, The Devil's Horn: The Story of the Saxophone, from Noisy Novelty to King of Cool

“researchers have conducted more than a hundred studies that explore music’s ability to evoke in the listener the five “basic” emotions—happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and love/tenderness, which appear in musical scores as, respectively, festoso, dolente, furioso, timoroso, and teneramente—or the hundreds of subsets of those emotions.”
Michael Segell, The Devil's Horn: The Story of the Saxophone, from Noisy Novelty to King of Cool



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