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Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane

Carole Boston Weatherford

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Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South in the 1930s: preachers praying, music on the radio, the bustling of the household. These vivid noises shaped John's own sound as a musician. Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls have composed an amazingly rich hymn to the childhood of jazz legend John Coltrane.

Before John Was a Jazz Giant is a 2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book and a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Language: English

Pages: 24

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company

Release: April 01, 2008

ISBN: 0805079947

ISBN 13: 9780805079944

Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane

Carole Boston Weatherford

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South in the 1930s: preachers praying, music on the radio, the bustling of the household. These vivid noises shaped John's own sound as a musician. Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls have composed an amazingly rich hymn to the childhood of jazz legend John Coltrane.

Before John Was a Jazz Giant is a 2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book and a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Language: English

Pages: 24

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company

Release: April 01, 2008

ISBN: 0805079947

ISBN 13: 9780805079944

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