THE SAXOPHONE: The Sax

In the sweltering heat of 1960s Mississippi, a young boy steps into a dusty antique shop and leaves carrying a saxophone that should never have survived the fire it came from.

The instrument holds the souls of Black musicians who once refused to be silenced. When police burned their sanctuary to the ground, their bodies were taken, but their music was not. Every note they played in defiance became trapped inside the horn, waiting for someone willing to listen.

As the nights pass, the saxophon...