Duke Ellington (African-American Biographies (Enslow))
by Carin T Ford
Briefly discusses jazz and blues music and introduces some of their instruments, including saxophone, brass instruments, and piano.
Wynton Marsalis Hb (Contemporary Biographies)
by Veronica Freeman Ellis
Discusses the life and musical career of the African American trumpet player known for his performances of popular jazz and classical music.
How did a working-class young man from Washington, DC, turn the music world on its head and become the "Master Of Jazz"? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library! A pivotal fixture of the Harlem Renaissance, Duke Ellington was the bandleader of the historic Cotton Club and a master composer -- writing close to 3,000 songs in his lifetime and capturing the spirit of the Black experience in the Unites States. Over a 50-year career, Ellington became one of the biggest names in jazz as we kn...
This book uses Coltrane's catalog of essential performances and recordings as touchstones for telling the story of the musician's life and times. It puts Coltrane's most productive musical years in the context of the social and political upheaval of the 1950s-1960s but always shows Coltrane as an artist somehow beyond his times--and to some degree not of this world.
Horn for Louis (Stepping Stone Chapter Books) (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))
by Eric A Kimmel
How did famous New Orleans jazz trumpet player Louis Armstrong get his first horn? Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong was too poor to buy a real instrument. He didn’t even go to school. To help his mother pay the rent, every day he rode a junk wagon through the streets of New Orleans, playing a tin horn and collecting stuff people didn’t want. Then one day, the junk wagon passed a pawn shop with a gleaming brass trumpet in the window. . . . With messages about hard work, persistence, hope, toleranc...
Bailando Jazz/Jazz Dancing (Pebble Plus: Bilinque/Bilingual (Library))
by Kathryn Clay
"Simple text and photographs present jazz dancing, including simple steps--in both English and Spanish"--Provided by publisher.
Louis Armstrong (Biografias Graficas (Hardcover)) (Trailblazers of the Modern World)
by Gini Holland
Two acclaimed picture book talents combine in this award-winning journey through the history and legacy of jazz, the unique American musical art form. Carole Boston Weatherford’s poetic text is perfectly matched with Eric Velasquez’s powerful oil paintings. From an African drum to a slave ship to a Harlem nightclub, The Sound That Jazz Makes explores the African-American experience that gives jazz its passion and spirit.
Two-time Caldecott Medal winner Chris Raschka captures the sound, passion, innovation, and love of the arts that the renowned jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams shared with the world. Mary’s Idea is a stunning and transporting picture book about music and the creative process, for readers of Trombone Shorty and Chris Raschka’s acclaimed books about musicians, including Charlie Parker Played Be Bop and Mysterious Thelonious. At the age of three, Mary Lou Williams taught herself how to play the pian...
Traces the life of the internationally acclaimed musician and composer who helped popularize jazz music.
The Louis Armstrong You Never Knew (You Never Knew )
by James Lincoln Collier