That Moaning Saxophone: The Six Brown Brothers and the Dawning of a Musical CrazeThe saxophone, today an emblem of cool and the instrument most associated with jazz, was largely ignored in the U. S. for well over a half century after its invention in France in 1838. Bringing this new sound to the American public was the Six Brown Brothers, one of the most famous musical acts on the stage in the early twentieth century. The group's quarter century of ups and downs mirror the rise and fall of minstrelsy and vaudeville. With treks