Russell-Brown, Katheryn

Summary: "A biography of African American musician Melba Doretta Liston, a virtuoso musician who played the trombone and composed and arranged music for many of the great jazz musicians of the twentieth century. Includes afterword, discography, and sources"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books Inc. 2014

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Orgill, Roxane

Summary: Relates how the famous jazz trumpeter began his musical career, as a poor boy in New Orleans, by singing songs on street corners and playing a battered cornet in a marching band.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Company 1997

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Berman, Kathleen Cornell

Summary: Explores the childhood and early career of the noted jazz trumpeter who gained fame performing at the first Newport Jazz Festival in 1955.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2019

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Golio, Gary

Summary: Presents a rhythmic tribute to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and their creation of bebop.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015

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Andrews, Troy

Summary: A Grammy-nominated headliner for the New Orleans Jazz Fest describes his childhood in Tremé and how he came to be a bandleader by age six.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 AND

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Payne, M. D. (Matthew D.)

Summary: "A pivotal fixture of the Harlem Renaissance, Duke Ellington was the bandleader of the historic Cotton Club and a master composer -- writing close to 3,000 songs in his lifetime and capturing the spirit of the Black experience in the Unites States. Over a50-year career, Ellington became one of the biggest names in jazz as we know it"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020

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