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Jazz

by Walter Dean Myers · 2000

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This smash-hit picture book of jazz music poems, from award-winning father-don team Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers, is now available in paperback. There's a crazy syncopation /and it's tearing through the nation / and it's bringing sweet elation / to every single tune./ It's Jazz/ From bebop to New Orleans, from ragtime to boogie, and every style in between, this collection of Walter Dean Myers's energetic and engaging poems, accompanied by Christopher Myers's bright and exhilarating paintings, celebrates different styles of the American art form, jazz. "JAZZ" takes readers on a musical journey from jazz's beginnings to the present day. Includes time line and jazz glossary.

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historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
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musicmusicMore like thisLess of thisdiversitydiversityMore like thisLess of thisAfrican AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thisartartMore like thisLess of this
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picture bookschildrensyoung adultmiddle grade
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short · 44 pages
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