This Jazz Man

Presents an introduction to jazz music and provides brief facts about nine well-known jazz musicians, set to the rhythm of the traditional song, "This Old Man."

About the author

KAREN EHRHARDT doesn't play an instrument and can't sing a lick. But she's probably listening to music right now, at her home in the California redwoods, with her husband David and their dog Wylie. This is her first book for children.
R.G. ROTH studied drawing and painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. His award-winning work has been displayed in New York City. Though a native of the historic whaling village Cold Spring Harbor, New York, he now lives with his wife, two daughters, and their dog Moxie in a 1850s period home in Hudson, Ohio.

Summary

In this toe-tapping jazz tribute, the traditional "This Old Man" gets a swinging makeover, and some of the era's best musicians take center stage. The tuneful text and vibrant illustrations bop, slide, and shimmy across the page as Satchmo plays one, Bojangles plays two . . . right on down the line to Charles Mingus, who plays nine, plucking strings that sound "divine."
    
Easy on the ear and the eye, this playful introduction to nine jazz giants will teach children to count--and will give them every reason to get up and dance!
    
Includes a brief biography of each musician.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Ehrhardt, Ehrhardt Karen
• Assisted by: R G Roth (Illustration), R. G. Roth (Illustration), R.G. Roth (Illustration), Roth R.G. (Illustration)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 4 to 7
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2015
• EAN: 9780544339224
• ISBN: 978-0-544-33922-4
• No. of pages: 32
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Picture books; Jazz, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Early years: verse, rhymes and wordplay, Early years: numbers and counting, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Biography & Autobiography / Music, JUVENILE FICTION: Concepts / Counting & Numbers, JUVENILE FICTION: Nursery Rhymes, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Music / Jazz, Relating to African American / Black American people