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1) The cosmo-biography of Sun Ra: the sound of joy is enlightening

Author

Raschka, Christopher

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

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A one-hundredth birthday tribute to the late jazz artist explores his observations about humanity's discriminatory and violent behaviors as well as his efforts to forge world peace through music with the Sun Ra Arkestra.

2) Trombone Shorty

Author

Andrews, Troy

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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A Grammy-nominated headliner for the New Orleans Jazz Fest describes his childhood in Trem�e and how he came to be a bandleader by age six.

3) How Jelly Roll Morton invented jazz

Author

Winter, Jonah

Publisher

Roaring Brook Press

Pub. Date

2015.

Language

English

Description

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"In this unusual ... picture book that riffs on the language and rhythms of old New Orleans, ... picture book biographer Jonah Winter ... turns his focus to one of America's early jazz heroes"--Amazon.com.

4) Birth of the cool: how jazz great Miles Davis found his sound

Author

Berman, Kathleen Cornell

Publisher

Page Street Kids

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

Description

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Explores the childhood and early career of the noted jazz trumpeter who gained fame performing at the first Newport Jazz Festival in 1955.

5) Little Melba and her big trombone

Author

Russell-Brown, Katheryn

Publisher

Lee & Low Books

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

Description

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"A biography of African American musician Melba Doretta Liston, a virtuoso musician who played the trombone and composed and arranged music for many of the great jazz musicians of the twentieth century. Includes afterword, discography, and sources"--

6) Duke Ellington: the piano prince and his orchestra

Author

Pinkney, Andrea Davis

Publisher

Hyperion Books for Children

Pub. Date

[1998]

Language

English

Description

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A brief recounting of the career of this jazz musician and composer who, along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category.

7) Who was Louis Armstrong?

Author

McDonough, Yona Zeldis

Series

Who was-- ?
Who was ?

Publisher

Grosset & Dunlap

Pub. Date

c2004

Language

English

8) Trombone Shorty

Author

Andrews, Troy

Publisher

Live Oak Media

Pub. Date

[2017]

Language

English

Description

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"Hailing from the Treme 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"--

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1) The cosmo-biography of Sun Ra: the sound of joy is enlightening

2) Trombone Shorty

3) How Jelly Roll Morton invented jazz

4) Birth of the cool: how jazz great Miles Davis found his sound

5) Little Melba and her big trombone

6) Duke Ellington: the piano prince and his orchestra

7) Who was Louis Armstrong?

8) Trombone Shorty

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