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Diverse Books - African American/ Black Experience in the U.S.
Picture Book Musician Bios Summer Challenge 2018 Music
Rocking and Rolling Picture Book Biographies
Picture Book Musician Bios Summer Challenge 2018 Music
Rocking and Rolling Picture Book Biographies
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Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest.
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Picture Book Musician Bios Summer Challenge 2018 Music
Picture Books for Black History Month
Rocking and Rolling Picture Book Biographies
Picture Books for Black History Month
Rocking and Rolling Picture Book Biographies
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"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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Hailing from the Treme neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy Trombone Shorty Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest. Here, follow Andrews as he fulfills his dream of becoming a musician, despite the odds, and becomes an international star. Based on the 2016 Caldecott Honor Book and...
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A full-cast production recorded live at Convergence in Bloomington, Minnesota. The Ramon Raquello Orchestra was supposed to get their big break that night in 1938, on Orson Welles' Mercury Theater show, but they kept getting cut off. The rest of that program became famous. Still is. But what happened to the band? We join them many years later at a reunion, and it seems that they can't seem to escape the influence of the Martians.