Tag: Women's History

Bird & Diz When sax player Charlie “Bird” Parker and trumpeter John “Dizzy” Gillespie make music together, they toss notes back and forth like a game of tag and chase each other with sounds. Amazon  Ella Queen of Jazz Ella Fitzgerald sang the blues and she sang them good. Ella and her fellas were on… Continue reading Music-based Biography — Picture Books about Musical People

Who is Florence Price?  Florence loved her mother’s piano playing and wanted to be just like her. When she was just four years old she played her first piano concert and as she grew up she studied and wrote music hoping one day to hear her own music performed by an orchestra.  Amazon  The Little… Continue reading Music-based Biography — Picture Books about Musical People