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Title details for This Jazz Man by Karen Ehrhardt - Available

This Jazz Man

by Karen Ehrhardt
James "D-Train" Williams
Audiobook
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"The images will capture young readers while the easy rhythm and familiar counting song based on "This Old Man" will begin their jazz education." –AudioFile Magazine

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  • Release date

    April 28, 2016

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781430125303
      • File size: 9786 KB
      • Duration: 00:20:23

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Some stories shared by parents and children have the power to be remembered long after the loved and repeated tellings or playings are over. THIS JAZZ MAN delights on several levels. The jazzy, snazzy illustrations of the legendary musicians--Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, and six others--evoke each personality and his music. The images will capture young readers while the easy rhythm and familiar counting song based on "This Old Man" will begin their jazz education. The bonus for parents, or older young listeners, is the epilogue of biographies of each musician, complete with highlights of their fame, including names of songs. The music--drums, piano, sax, trumpet, and bass--is as much the star here as Williams's narrative. Live Oak has added another winner to their Jazz series. R.F.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 23, 2006
      Setting her ode to nine jazz giants to the rhythm of "This Old Man," newcomer Ehrhardt playfully substitutes the onomatopoeic sounds of their instruments (or Bill "Bojangles" Robinson's tapping feet) for the standard "knick knack paddy-whack" refrain. Drummer Art "Bu" Blakey, for example, is the jazz man who plays six: "He plays solos with his sticks,/ With a bomp-bomp! Bubbuda-bomp!
      / Give the man a hand,/ This jazz man beats with the band." In each energized mixed-media spread, Roth, also making his children's book debut, features a figure—Dizzy, Bird and Satchmo among them—in dapper mismatched clothing, swinging against white backgrounds bordered in cheerful stripes styled like awnings and bandstands. Roth's painted display type cavorts across the spreads, extending each verse's third line with more syncopated syllables. Performers are not identified until the endnotes, which pair brief bios with spot illustrations. Other jazz-themed children's books go into more detail, but the candy-colored collages burst from the pages, making this addition just right as an uptempo introduction for youngest music lovers. Ages 3-7.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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