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Bat Boy and His Violin, The
Reginald is more interested in his violin than his father's job managing the worst baseball team in the Negro Leagues. Then his father makes him the team's bat boy, and his music begins to lead the team to victory. Father and son begin to understand each
Before John Was a Jazz Giant
The author imagines the sounds of John Coltrane's childhood that influenced his musical compositions as an adult. A historical note, selected listening and further reading are included.
| Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston |
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Before John Was a Jazz Giant
The author imagines the sounds of John Coltrane's childhood that influenced his musical compositions as an adult. A historical note, selected listening and further reading are included.
| Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston |
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Django: World's Greatest Jazz Guitarist
In descriptive, poetic, rhythmic (8 count meter per line as the rhythm of music) text the life story of Django Reinhardt is sketched for the reader. The illustrations offer a glimpse into the life of gypsies and the challenges this guitarist endured to be
| Author: Christensen, Bonnie |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Django: World's Greatest Jazz Guitarist
In descriptive, poetic, rhythmic (8 count meter per line as the rhythm of music) text the life story of Django Reinhardt is sketched for the reader. The illustrations offer a glimpse into the life of gypsies and the challenges this guitarist endured to be
| Author: Christensen, Bonnie |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
This 'slice of life' biography describes the weeks surrounding Gershwin's composing and premiering Rhapsody in Blue. A CD of the music is included. The illustrations, which look very Noel Coward, capture the 20's look.
Heroes
The author provides 12 biographies of important men throughout the world and throughout history that she illustrates in the art style of the time and place. An introduction, maps, and a list of further reading make this a useful book in the classroom.
| Author: Hazell, Rebecca |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Jazz ABZ
Each letter of the alphabet introduces a famous jazz musician in a different poetic form. Of particular interest to teachers and students are the biographical sketches of the musicians and excellent notes on the poetic forms. The phenominal art work is
| Author: Marsalis, Wynton |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow
Told in vivid language and stunningly illustrated, this is a story of a talented child who discovers his love of music and learns to see, hear, and interpret the world around him in his own unique way.
| Author: Golio, Gary |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | language arts - writing
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Keep on Singing
The story of the life of the singer Marian Anderson is told in ballad form. The author's notes at the end of the book include additional biographical information.
| Author: Livingston, Myra Cohn |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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Mysterious Thelonious
Chris Raschka has blended musical notes with glorious color to make the reader see how Thelonious Monk's music would appear on paper. Reading the words on the page resembles reading musical notes on a scale rather than the traditional left-to-right, top-
| Author: Raschka, Chris |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Old Musician, The
A little girl hears an old man playing a flute and initiates his journey as an ever more popular musician of increasing number of instruments until his celebrity invades his private life.
Piano Starts Here
This wonderfully illustrated picture book reads in the first person like a reminiscence, but actually was written long after jazz pianist Art Tatum died. It tells the story of his childhood, his family,his terrible eyesight, and his journey to success. T
| Author: Parker, Robert Andrew |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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Roots and Blues
Adoff uses a shaped speech style to create images of the birth of jazz and its rhythms of life in the South from ancestral drumbeats to sounds of everyday life and work.The unique poetry prances across the page making it as unique as the American form of
| Author: Adoff, Arnold |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Sebastian: A Book About Bach
This simple biography tells the story of the great composer, Johann Sebastian Bach. Some readers thought that the illustrations were childish though the content was not.
| Author: Winter, Jeanette |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Sweet Music in Harlem
Inspired by a real photograph of jazz musicians taken in 1958, the fictional story recounts young C. J.'s search through Harlem for his uncle's hat, a hat his uncle wants to wear in a photograph. Included is the historical photograph with the identities
| Author: Taylor, Debbie |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Music > musicians > Anderson, Marian
From Miss Ida's Porch
People from the street gather on Miss Ida's porch to hear stories, especially stories about important Black musicians (Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, Marian Anderson) and their personal connections to them. These I-remember-when stories are both heartfelt a
| Author: Belton, Sandra |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Keep on Singing
The story of the life of the singer Marian Anderson is told in ballad form. The author's notes at the end of the book include additional biographical information.
| Author: Livingston, Myra Cohn |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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Voice That Challenged a Nation, The
A detailed biography of Marian Anderson, an exceedingly talented woman who overcame some racial barriers and tolerated others in order to do what she loved best, recounts how she became involved in the Civil Rights Movement. In addition to wonderful arch
| Author: Freedman, Russell |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Music > musicians > Bach, Johann Sebastian
Sebastian: A Book About Bach
This simple biography tells the story of the great composer, Johann Sebastian Bach. Some readers thought that the illustrations were childish though the content was not.
| Author: Winter, Jeanette |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Music > musicians > Brahms, Johannes
Clara Schumann
This biography chronicles the life of Clara Schumann, child prodigy and wife of composer Robert Schumann and mother of eight children. The book is illustrated with portraits and diary excerpts. A preface, an epilogue, a timeline, and an index make the b
| Author: Reich, Susan |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Music > musicians > Charles, Ray
Ray Charles
In a beautiful reprint of a 1973 book, the author tells the story of the legendary blind musician Ray Charles. An Afterword updates the earlier version.
| Author: Mathis, Sharon |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Music > musicians > Ellington, Duke
Duke Ellington
This is the story of one of the greatest musicians and composers of the 20th century, Duke Ellington. (Coretta Scott King Award Winner; Caldecott Honor Book)
| Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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ellington was not a street
The poet lovingly remembers her family's recent history that was filled with stars of the African American firmament. Brief biographies of the people depicted add welcome information.
| Author: Shange, Ntozake |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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From Miss Ida's Porch
People from the street gather on Miss Ida's porch to hear stories, especially stories about important Black musicians (Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, Marian Anderson) and their personal connections to them. These I-remember-when stories are both heartfelt a
| Author: Belton, Sandra |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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This Jazzman
Using vibrant colors, typeface, and onomatopoetic words, the author and illustrator introduce readers to types of jazz musicians. Back pages provide biographical information on jazz greats.
| Author: Ehrhardt, Karen |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Music > musicians > Gillespie, Dizzy
Jazz: My Music, My People
This stunningly illustrated book offers short biographies of dozens of musicians, from Leadbelly and Jelly Roll Morton to Lena Horne and Dizzy Gillespie.
This Jazzman
Using vibrant colors, typeface, and onomatopoetic words, the author and illustrator introduce readers to types of jazz musicians. Back pages provide biographical information on jazz greats.
| Author: Ehrhardt, Karen |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Music > musicians > Holliday, Billie
Becoming Billie Holiday
Weatherford uses the titles of Billie Holiday songs as titles for poems that tell the story of Billie's life and road to fame.
| Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Blues Singers, The
The author tells his granddaughter about the origin of blues in America through 10 stories of great blues musicians he and his father had known. The interesting illustrations are done in a thick line, solid color style. A bibliography and a recording li
| Author: Lester, Julius |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Music > musicians > Horne, Lena
From Miss Ida's Porch
People from the street gather on Miss Ida's porch to hear stories, especially stories about important Black musicians (Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, Marian Anderson) and their personal connections to them. These I-remember-when stories are both heartfelt a
| Author: Belton, Sandra |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Jazz: My Music, My People
This stunningly illustrated book offers short biographies of dozens of musicians, from Leadbelly and Jelly Roll Morton to Lena Horne and Dizzy Gillespie.
Music > musicians > Jackson, Mahalia
Blues Singers, The
The author tells his granddaughter about the origin of blues in America through 10 stories of great blues musicians he and his father had known. The interesting illustrations are done in a thick line, solid color style. A bibliography and a recording li
| Author: Lester, Julius |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Music > musicians > Key, Francis Scott
By Dawn's Early Light
This is an historically accurate and beautifully illustrated account of how Francis Scott Key came to write "The Star Spangled Banner."
| Author: Kroll, Steven |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Music > musicians > Leadbelly (Ledbetter, Huddie)
Jazz: My Music, My People
This stunningly illustrated book offers short biographies of dozens of musicians, from Leadbelly and Jelly Roll Morton to Lena Horne and Dizzy Gillespie.
Music > musicians > Mendelssohn, Felix
Clara Schumann
This biography chronicles the life of Clara Schumann, child prodigy and wife of composer Robert Schumann and mother of eight children. The book is illustrated with portraits and diary excerpts. A preface, an epilogue, a timeline, and an index make the b
| Author: Reich, Susan |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Music > musicians > Monk, Thelonious
Jazz: My Music, My People
This stunningly illustrated book offers short biographies of dozens of musicians, from Leadbelly and Jelly Roll Morton to Lena Horne and Dizzy Gillespie.
Mysterious Thelonious
Chris Raschka has blended musical notes with glorious color to make the reader see how Thelonious Monk's music would appear on paper. Reading the words on the page resembles reading musical notes on a scale rather than the traditional left-to-right, top-
| Author: Raschka, Chris |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Music > musicians > Morton, Jelly Roll
Jazz: My Music, My People
This stunningly illustrated book offers short biographies of dozens of musicians, from Leadbelly and Jelly Roll Morton to Lena Horne and Dizzy Gillespie.
Music > musicians > Presley, Elvis
Shake Rag
As a boy, Elvis Presley discovers "good news" music at a traveling church that gives his guitar playing a distinctive sound when he records later in 1954.
Shake, Rattle & Roll
Rock and roll around the clock with this fun and fact-filled introduction to the pioneers of rock and roll. From Bill Haley and His Comets to James Broan and his Famous Flames, read bout fourteen of the original stars of rock and roll and learn how they c
| Author: George-Warren, Holly |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Music > musicians > Schumann, Clara
Clara Schumann
This biography chronicles the life of Clara Schumann, child prodigy and wife of composer Robert Schumann and mother of eight children. The book is illustrated with portraits and diary excerpts. A preface, an epilogue, a timeline, and an index make the b
| Author: Reich, Susan |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Music > musicians > Schumann, Robert
Clara Schumann
This biography chronicles the life of Clara Schumann, child prodigy and wife of composer Robert Schumann and mother of eight children. The book is illustrated with portraits and diary excerpts. A preface, an epilogue, a timeline, and an index make the b
| Author: Reich, Susan |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Music > musicians > Smith, Bessie
Blues Singers, The
The author tells his granddaughter about the origin of blues in America through 10 stories of great blues musicians he and his father had known. The interesting illustrations are done in a thick line, solid color style. A bibliography and a recording li
| Author: Lester, Julius |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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