Mar
08
2010
Duck Ellington Swings Through the Zoo: Baby Loves Jazz (Board book)
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Boogie along with Duck Ellington as he plays the piano: The black and white keys, he played them with ease, And the rest of the animals asked for “more please .”
About the Author
Andy Blackman Hurwitz is a 17- year music veteran with a specialty in jazz. In addition to his own record label, r o p e a d o p e , Andy was the head of A&R for Columbia Jazz, the general manager of New Yorks fabled jazz club the Knitting Factory, and the marketing consultant for Blue Note records. Andrew Cunningham graduated “top portfolio” from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. With a focus on illustrations and painting, his artwork has been featured in East Coast galleries from Boston to New York. (more…)
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This series is wonderful! Our two-year-old absolutely loves the Baby Loves Jazz series. We bought a few to start out, then ended up buying the whole set. Two months after acquiring them, she is still enamored and requests to listen to them and read them every day. Her favorites? Well, these are the words we hear most often: “Mommy, read Duck and Miles?” or “Daddy, listen to Duck and Miles?” Philly Joe is also high on the list. I recommend them all. The books stand out on their own, but the music is what makes this series really shine. For example, on Duck Ellington’s CD, he does a great Monk style on one track, then switches to great impression of Coltrane’s classic quartet on the next track, with a very nice McCoy Tyner impression. Lots of variety and high quality make this series worthwhile (though I could have done without Louis Lion’s potty tune). Don’t forget the Go Baby Go CD as well (a stand-alone CD without a book), which is perhaps a notch above the music on the book CDs. The ABC tune is her favorite on that one.
My tenth-month old absolutely loves this CD. She crawls over to the radio, stands up and starts bopping to the music whenever we play it. She loves the animal sounds as well. We can’t play it during dinnertime, however, since she gets distracted and wants to get down from the high chair to dance.