Lee, a jazz pianist, has to leave his band when he begins losing his hearing, but he meets a deaf saxophone player in a sign language class and together they form a snazzy new band that takes the world by storm![...]

Through poems and poetic prose pieces, acclaimed children's author Arnold Adoff celebrates that uniquely American form of music called the blues. In his signature "shaped speech" style, he creates a narrative of moments and joyous music, from the drums of the ancestors, the red dirt of the plantatio[...]

"The only way to make a bid
for a girl's equality is to climb right up to the
toppermost bough
of the very tallest tree."
The dynamic ode to girl power was written by noted Afro-American actor, poet, and playwright Beach E. Richards. First published in 1951, her poem is given new li[...]

When a young girl dances with her mother to a Louis Armstrong record, she wonders about the nonsense words she hears him singing. "Scat?" she asks. "What's that?" The answer comes to her in her dreams, when the great Satchmo himself arrives to teach her how to sing about any old thing, even bubble g[...]