International Jazz Day is a yearly event on 30 April, organized by UNESCO to celebrate “the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people.” The day was proclaimed during the UNESCO General Conference in November 2011.
Once I would have said that jazz music wasn't something my students were interested in, but I haven't had too much trouble getting them to borrow books such as these:
• Ben's Trumpet by Rachel Isadora
• This Jazz Man by Karen Ehrhardt
• My Two Grandads by Floella Benjamin
and all the wonderful biographies that are part of the library's picture book biography collection:
• Dizzy by Jonah Winter ( the story of Dizzy Gillespie)
• Mister and Lady Day by Amy Novesky (the story of Billie Holiday and the dog who loved her)
• The Little Piano Girl by Ann Ingalls and Maryann MacDonald (the story of Mary Lou Williams)
• Jazz Age Josephine by Jonah Winter (the story of singer Josephine Baker)
• Charlie Parker Played Be Bop by Chris Raschka
• Before John was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane by Carole Boston Weatherford
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