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Weatherford, Carole Boston

The Sound That Jazz Makes

32 pp. | Walker | April, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-8027-8720-7 $$16.95 | Library ISBN 0-8027-8721-5 $$17.85
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Eric Velasquez. "JAZZ is a downbeat born in our nation, / chords of struggle and jubilation, / bursting forth from hearts set free / in notes that echo history." Weatherford's minimal, impressionistic narrative joins with large, colorful, realistic oil paintings to provide snapshots of some major historical influences on the development of jazz--from African rhythms to slave spirituals, cakewalks, the Harlem Renaissance, and rap.
Reviewer: Jack Forman

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