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(0)Gary Golio
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the legendary jazz musician, from his deeply religious childhood to his career as a boundary-breaking musician who found inspiration in his own unique approach to both spirituality and music.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Silence. That was the response at Cafe Society the first time Billie Holiday performed a song called "Strange Fruit." In the 1930s, Billie was known as a performer of jazz and blues music, but his song wasn't either of those things, . It was a song aboutinjustice, and it would change her life forever. Discover how two outsiders- Billie Holiday, a young black woman raised in poverty, and Abel Meeropol, the son of Jewish immigrants- combined their...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Once there was a little slip of a boy who roamed the streets of London, hungry for life (and maybe a bit of bread). His dad long gone and his actress mother ailing, five-year-old Charlie found himself onstage one day taking his mum's place, singing and drawing laughs amid a shower of coins. There were times in the poorhouse and times spent sitting in the window at home with Mum, making up funny stories about passersby. And when Charlie described a...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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?
7) Bird & Diz
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Presents a rhythmic tribute to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and their creation of bebop.
