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Legends, icons & rebels : music that changed the world
Part memoir, part tribute, and all great storytelling ... Music industry veterans Robbie Robertson, Jim Guerinot, Jared Levine, and Sebastian Robertson invite young readers to share with them in celebrating twenty-seven musical legends. Short profiles chronicle personal stories and achievements of extraordinarily talented artists whose innovations changed the landscape of music for generations…
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- 9781770495715
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- 782.421640922 ROB
A to Z mysteries : the X'ed-out X-Ray
Kids love collecting the entire alphabet and super editions! With over 8 million copies in print, the A to Z Mysteries® have been hooking chapter book readers on mysteries and reading for years. Now this classic kid favorite is back with a bright new look! X is for X-Ray . . . X marks the spot! When the kids go to a concert, Dink injures his arm. At the same time, the singer’s diamond nec…
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- 9780375824814
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- 84 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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Bud, not Buddy
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
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
Duke Ellington
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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Ben's trumpet
The story of Ben is fiction, but it could be the story of more than one jazz musician who grew up in the twenties. Using the art-deco style of the period, Rachel Isadora not only captures the poignancy and yearning of a youthful talent, but in page after page of striking art seems to convey the very sound of music.
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- 0590422413
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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Piano starts here : the young Art Tatum
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
John Lennon : the beatle with the big mouth
John was a clever boy but always in trouble. He couldnt be bothered with schoolwork he was only interested in one thing: pop music. He would dress up as his favourite pop stars and write his own songs, strumming away on his beloved guitar. With his hippy flares and little round sunglasses John became the most important member of the most famous band in the world The Beatles. Renowned for his ex…
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- 9781904977148
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- 109 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- Who Was......
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- 927 LEN
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