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God bless the child
A swing spiritual based on the proverb "God blessed the child that's got his own."
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
Celebrates the magnificent feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.
Freedom in Congo Square
Six days a week, slaves labor from sunup to sundown and beyond, but on Sunday afternoons, they gather with free blacks at Congo Square outside New Orleans, free from oppression. Includes foreword about Congo Square by Freddi Williams Evans, glossary, and author's historical note
Visiting Langston
A poem to celebrate the African American poet, Langston Hughes, born on February 1, 1902
Jazz on a Saturday night
If you have ever been lucky enough to hear great jazz, then you will understand the pure magic of this book. Leo and Diane Dillon use bright colors and musical patterns that make music skip off the page in this toe-tapping homage to many jazz greats. From Miles Davis and Charlie Parker to Ella Fitzgerald, here is a dream team sure to knock your socks off. Learn about this popular music form and read a biography of each player pictured-and then hear each instrument play on a specially produced CD. What's the featured song? "Jazz on a Saturday Night," written and recorded to accompany this book.
The Negro speaks of rivers
The famous poem, taken from The collected poems of Langston Hughes (c1994), illustrated with watercolors
Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow
Before he became one of the greatest guitar players of all time, Jimi Hendrix was a boy who loved to paint and listen to records, and who asked himself an unusual question: could someone paint pictures with sound?
Before John was a jazz giant
This lyrical picture-book biography of John Coltrane focuses on his childhood and how he interpreted sounds before he made his music
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