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Acoustic Rooster forms a jazz band with Duck Ellington, Bee Holliday, and Pepe Ernesto Cruz to compete in the annual Barnyard Talent Show against such greats as Thelonius Steer, Mules Davis, and Ella Finchgerald. Includes glossary, notes on the characters and songs, and jazz timeline.
3) Jazz
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Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the roots of jazz music.
4) New Orleans!
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Alfie and Emilia are transported by their great-aunt's latest magical secret ingredient to New Orleans, where they help the members of a jazz band and try to locate a lost cookbook.
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Picture Book Musician Bios Summer Challenge 2018 Music
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Sing Me A Story
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Sing Me A Story
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Introduces the musical style of jazz known as be bop as played by legendary African-American saxophonist Charlie Parker.
8) Who bop?
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Hip hares and cool cats dance to the swinging music of Jazz-bo's saxophone.
10) Jazz baby
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A group of children move and play, hum and sleep to a jazz beat.
12) Bat and Rat
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One night at the Hotel Midnight, the lyrics written and sung by jazz musician Rat are those inspired by his friendship with Bat, who plays the piano and writes the tunes.
13) Jazzmatazz!
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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.
16) Cool Daddy Rat
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A young rat hides in his father's bass case and tags along as he plays and scats around the big city.
17) Willie Jerome
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Nobody appreciates Willie Jerome's jazz trumpet-playing except his sister, who finally makes Mama listen to the music speak.
19) Fish jam
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"Jazz is a scat-singing fish who is way too noisy! Will he every find a place to play without being shoo, shoo, shooed away?"--Page [4] cover.
20) Jazz for lunch!
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After lunch at a very crowded jazz cafe, a boy and his Auntie Nina are inspired to create a feast of their own with such treats as Thelonious Monk Fish and Nat King Cole Slaw.