Jazz For Baby Thursday, February 14, 2013
Does your youngster get excited about hearing music, or “reading” along with you? Here are four picture books, each including a CD that goes along with the book. The books have heavy card stock pages with colorful illustrations. Each page has a corresponding song on its CD. The players in the jazz band recording are some of New York City’s hottest young jazz players. ”Duck Ellington Swings Through the Zoo” is about Duck going to the zoo to relieve the boredom of the zoo animals with his jazz piano. Things certainly liven up! “Charlie Bird Counts to the Beat” tells the story of Charlie Bird playing his sax and counting up to ten. Three Happy Hippos playing harmonicas never sounded so good! “Mingus Mouse Plays Christmastime Jazz” is about Mingus Mouse, who, upon arriving at home for Christmas, realizes he hasn’t brought a present for his mom. After a little brainstorming, he solves the problem. (Sorry. You have to read the book.) In “Nursery Rhyme Jazz“, we meet the main jazz characters, which include Ella the Elephant and a few more we haven’t mentioned, yet. You have never heard nursery rhymes quite like this! Delight your little one(s) with one or more of these wonderful books. For more information about these, or other children’s books or songbooks, please contact us at 1-800-42-MUSIC, email us at keyboard@stantons.com, or visit our website, www.stantons.com