Our List of Jazz Artists

I'm so excited that -- after so much time of thinking about it and planning -- we finally did it!  Here's what we've been reading and listening to at Snack.

rationale:
https://switzerite.blogspot.com/2022/06/fun-with-music-part-2-jazz-musicians.html

Mar 13 - read Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford

Mar 14 - read This Jazz Man by Karen Ehrhardt

Mar 15 - Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong

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read Just a Lucky So and So:  The Story of Louis Armstrong by Lesa Cline-Ransome

listen to "What a Wonderful World"

watch "Hello Dolly"

Mar 16 - Florence Mills

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read Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills by Renée Watson

listen to "Bye Bye Florence" (vocals by Bert Howell, organ by Fats Waller)

Mar 20 - Thomas "Fats" Waller

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watch "Your Feet's Too Big"

watch "Honeysuckle Rose"

Mar 21 - Edward "Duke" Ellington

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read Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra by Andrea Pinkney

watch "Satin Doll"

Mar 22 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

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watch "Stair Dance"

watch "Little Colonel Bojangles Dance" with Shirley Temple

Mar 23 - George Gershwin

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read The Music in George's Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue by Suzanne Slade

listen to "Rhapsody in Blue"

Mar 27 - Billie Holiday

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watch "Symphony in Black" with Duke Ellington

watch "God Bless the Child" & "Now or Never" with Count Basie

Mar 28 - Charlie "Bird" Parker

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read Charlie Parker Played Be Bop by Chris Raschka

listen to "I Got Rhythm" & "Okiedokie"

read Bird & Diz by Gary Golio

Mar 29 - John “Dizzy” Gillespie

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read Dizzy by Jonah Winter

listen to "Good Bait"

Mar 30 - Thelonious Monk

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read Mysterious Thelonious by Chris Raschka

listen to first and second takes of "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm"

Apr 3 - Melba Liston

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read Little Melba and Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown

listen to My Reverie, from Claude Debussy, arranged by Melba Liston

Apr 4 - Ella Fitzgerald

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read Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa by Andrea Pinkney

listen to "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" with the Chick Webb Orchestra

listen to "How High the Moon" with Dizzy Gillespie

listen to "Summertime" with Louis Armstrong

Apr 5 - Ray Brown

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read Ray Brown's Jazz Profile on NPR

watch "One Bass Hit" with Dizzy Gillespie

Apr 6 - John Coltrane

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read Before John Was a Jazz Giant:  A Song of John Coltrane by Carole Boston Weatherford

read John Coltrane's Giant Steps by Chris Raschka

listen to "Giant Steps"

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