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Found 4 from your keywords: subject="Jazz musicians"
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Bud, not Buddy
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Christopher Paul Curtis

It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: He has his own suitcase full of special things. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers …

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9780440413288
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245 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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Duke Ellington
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Mike Venezia

Traces the life of the internationally acclaimed musician and composer who helped popularize jazz music

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0516445405
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32 pages : illustration : 24 cm
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Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers
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927 ELL
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Duke Ellington
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Andrea Davis Pinkney

You ever hear of the jazz-playin' man, the man with the cats who could swing with his band? He was born in 1899, in Washington, D.C. Born Edward Kennedy Ellington. But wherever young Edward went, he said, "Hey, call me Duke." Duke's name fit him rightly. He was a smooth-talkin', slick-steppin', piano-playin' kid. But his piano playing wasn't always a breezy as his stride. When Duke's mother,…

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0439109949
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32 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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927 ELL
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Piano starts here : the young Art Tatum
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Robert Andrew Parker

Regardless of whether they’ve heard of jazz or Art Tatum, young readers will appreciate how Parker uses simple, lyrical storytelling and colorful and energetic ink-and-wash illustrations to show the world as young Art Tatum might have seen it. Tatum came from modest beginnings and was nearly blind, but his passion for the piano and his acute memory for any sound that he heard drove him t…

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9780553533927
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36 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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786.2165092 PAR