I Am Jazz

I Am Jazz
Author: Jessica Herthel
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0698176731

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The story of a transgender child based on the real-life experience of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transkids everywhere "This is an essential tool for parents and teachers to share with children whether those kids identify as trans or not. I wish I had had a book like this when I was a kid struggling with gender identity questions. I found it deeply moving in its simplicity and honesty."—Laverne Cox (who plays Sophia in “Orange Is the New Black”) From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way. Jazz's story is based on her real-life experience and she tells it in a simple, clear way that will be appreciated by picture book readers, their parents, and teachers.

Being Jazz

Being Jazz
Author: Jazz Jennings
Publisher: Ember
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2017-06-27
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 039955467X

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Celebrate Pride every day with the teen advocate, trailblazer, and reality show star Jazz Jennings—one of Time Magazine's "25 Most Influential Teens" of the year. In this groundbreaking memoir, she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their own truths through sharing her very public transgender journey. "Jazz is one of the transgender community's most important activists." —Cosmopolitan "A role model for teens everywhere." —Seventeen At the age of five, Jazz Jennings’s transition to life as a girl put her in the public spotlight after she shared her story on national television. She’s since become one of the most recognizable and prominent advocates for transgender teens, through her TV show, interviews, and social media. Jazz’s openness has led to bullying and mistreatment from those who don’t understand her choices. She’s fought for the right to use the girls’ bathroom and to play on a girls’ soccer team, paving the way for others. And in this book, Jazz faces an even greater struggle—dealing with the physical and social stresses of being a teen. But being on the front lines of trans activism doesn't stop Jazz from experiencing the joys of growing up, from day camp to first dates. Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest and most prominent voices in the national discussion about gender identity. This remarkable memoir is a testament to the power of accepting yourself, learning to live an authentic life, and helping everyone to embrace their own truths.

Hear Me Talkin' to Ya

Hear Me Talkin' to Ya
Author: Nat Shapiro
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2012-08-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486171361

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In this marvelous oral history, the words of such legends as Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Billy Holiday trace the birth, growth, and changes in jazz over the years.

The Story of Jazz

The Story of Jazz
Author: Marshall Winslow Stearns
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1974
Genre:
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Jazz Baby

Jazz Baby
Author: Lisa Wheeler
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780152025229

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Baby and his family make some jazzy music.

New History of Jazz

New History of Jazz
Author: Alyn Shipton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Total Pages: 965
Release: 2004-03-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780826473806

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In this major update of the acclaimed and award-winning jazz history, Alyn Shipton challenges many of the assumptions that surround the birth and growth of jazz music. Shipton also re-evaluates the transition from swing to be-bop, asking just how political this supposed modern jazz revolution actually was. He makes the case for jazz as a truly international music from its earliest days, charting significant developments outside the USA from the 1920s onwards. All the great names in jazz history are here, from Louis Armstrong to Miles Davis and from Sidney Bechet to Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. But unlike those historians who call a halt with the death of Coltrane in 1967, Shipton continues the story with the major trends in jazz over the last 40 years: free jazz, jazz rock, world music influences, and the re-emergence of the popular jazz singer. This new edition brings the book completely up-to-date, including such names as John Medeski, Diana Krall, Django Bates, and Matthias Ruegg. There are also impor¬tant new sections on Latin Jazz and the repertory movement.

Joined at the Hip

Joined at the Hip
Author: Jay Goetting
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 0873518322

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From the early days through Prohibition and the swing era, then to bebop and beyond, this is the story of jazz music, musicians, and venues in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

All that Jazz

All that Jazz
Author: Ronald Atkins
Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1996
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780765199539

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First Book Of Jazz

First Book Of Jazz
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Ecco
Total Pages: 73
Release: 1995-10-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780880014243

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An introduction to jazz music by one of our finest writers. Langston Hughes, celebrated poet and longtime jazz enthusiast, wrote The First Book of Jazz as a homage to the music that inspired him. The roll of African drums, the dancing quadrilles of old New Orleans, the work songs of the river ports, the field shanties of the cotton plantations, the spirituals, the blues, the off-beats of ragtime -- in a history as exciting as jazz rhythms, Hughes describes how each of these played a part in the extraordinary history of jazz.

Jazz

Jazz
Author: Geoffrey C. Ward
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2001
Genre: Jazz
ISBN: 9780712667692

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Ken Burns and geoffrey Ward bring us the history of the first American music, from its beginnings in Ragtime, Blues and Gospel, through to the present day. JAZZ has been a prism through which so much of American History can be seen - a curious and unusually objective witness to the 20th Century.