Souna that Jazz Makes

Carole Boston Weatherford's lyrical stanzas combine with the power of Eric Velasquez's luminous oil paintings to trace the development of jazz, the quintessential American musical art form. From an African forest to a wooden slave ship to a Harlem nightclub, it is the tragic & joyous legacy of the African-American experience that gives jazz its passion & its spirit. Young readers will be mesmerized by this book which eloquently celebrates that remarkable legacy with a poetic symphony of sound & color. Every page is a moving, breathing, feeling work of art. Winner of the Carter G. Woodson Award; CBC-NCSS Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies; & NAACP Image Award, Nominee.Weatherford, Carole Boston is the author of 'Souna that Jazz Makes', published 2006 under ISBN 9781422355398 and ISBN 142235539X.