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1) Jazz
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English
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Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the roots of jazz music.
3) Jazzmatazz!
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When a mouse scurries into a house and starts to play jazz music, other animals join in, one by one, each using his or her own particular talent.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"With his parents now divorced, Travis must a find a new groove with a little hip-hoppin', not-stoppin' DJing with his dad, in this celebration of Black fatherhood, identity and music through a generational rivalry of hip-hop vs jazz"--
Author
Publisher
Tortuga Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A fly uses a combination of Spanish and jazz scat to ask a sloth, a monkey, and a mackaw to transport his band to a tropical concert site, and then to talk sense to an anteater who interrupts their performance. Includes author's note on how language, rhythm, color, and life are depicted in the book.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The fictionalized story about a group of starving, homeless kids in 1890s New Orleans who made their own instruments and started a band that historians now consider an important step in the development of jazz"--
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mira has always danced to her own beat. A music prodigy in a family of athletes, she'd rather play trumpet than play ball--and with her audition to a prestigious jazz conservatory just around the corner (and her two best friends at music camp without her), she plans to spend the summer focused on jazz and nothing else. She only goes to the warehouse party in a last-ditch effort to bond with her older sister. Instead, she falls...
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Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1920s New Orleans, eighteen-year-old Zora, banished after an incident in Harlem, struggles with her overbearing family, magical powers, love of jazz, and forbidden romance with a white man.
1928. Zora Broussard arrived in New Orleans with not much more than a bag of clothes, a beautiful voice, and a pair of enchanted red shoes. Her magic caused a tragic accident, and now Zora wants to avoid her overbearing aunt and mean-spirited cousins. As a...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Publishing
Pub. Date
20110701.
Language
English
Description
This book is based on historical fact. The characters...Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Irving Townsend, Slim Gaillard, and all the band memebers really did exist. Their interactions with each other are confirmed through letters, memoirs, recordings, photographs, film footage, and newspaper articles. The most reliable description of their relationship is found in David Hajdu's book, Lush Life: A biogrpahy of Billy Strayhorn (North Point Press,...
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