It's Saxaphone Day on November 6.(Of course: you had it written in your diary - you just forgot to look).
It is the birthday of Adolphe Sax (seen here with professional saxaphonist Mandy Grezeszah html www.mandysax.com/gallery/more.html) who invented the instrument in 1846 for military bands.
Taken to higher levels by busk-don't-battle jazz musicians, the sax spawned the likes of Johnny Hodges, Lester Young, Charlie Parker and Sidney Bechet.
I'm working up his Petite Fleur for a street performance in Monmouth on Friday.
How are you celebrating?
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