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1) Trombone Shorty

Author

Andrews, Troy

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Children's Book, eBook

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"Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest"--

2) Oscar Peterson: the will to swing

Author

Lees, Gene

Language

English

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An engaging biography of a living musical legend, Oscar Peterson. A man Duke Ellington once called the "maharajah of the piano." Gene Lees carefully builds up the portrait of Peterson, his childhood and what it meant to be black and talented in Montreal in the 1940s, hist three marriages and six children, his musical partners (Ray Brown, Herb Ellis and Ed Thigpen), his musical friends and colleagues (Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Tatum and...

3) The NPR curious listener's guide to Jazz

Author

Schoenberg, Loren

Publisher

Grand Central Press/Perigee

Pub. Date

[2002]

Language

English

4) Dizzy

Author

Winter, Jonah

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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An acclaimed biographer for children, Jonah Winter brings historical figures to life for young listeners. Here he turns his talents to jazz legend John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie. Born into poverty and the victim of vicious parental abuses, Dizzy received a trumpet one day and it changed his life forever. Dizzy follows Gillespie's journey from rural South Carolina to New York City-straight into the burgeoning jazz scene he soon immersed himself in.

5) Just a lucky so and so: the story of Louis Armstrong

Author

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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Relates the story of jazz innovator Louis Armstong's rise from street waif to international superstar.

6) Before John was a jazz giant: a song of John Coltrane

Author

Weatherford, Carole Boston

Publisher

Henry Holt

Pub. Date

2008

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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This lyrical picture-book biography of John Coltrane focuses on his childhood and how he interpreted sounds before he made his music.

7) Soul

Publisher

Disney/Pixar

Pub. Date

[2021]

Language

English

Description

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Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. A misstep takes him from New York City to The Great Before, a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities before going to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22, who has never understood the appeal of the human life. As Joe tries to show 22 what's great about life, he may discover...