Before John Was a Jazz Giant is a 2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book.

Describes the spiritual journey jazz musician John Coltrane took in his life and the way that it is reflected in his music.

This biography charts the life and career of the trumpeter, Roy Eldridge. New light is shed on the various occasions when Eldridge unwillingly became entangled with gangsters, his uneven working relationships and the hurdles he had to overcome when working in all-white ensembles.

You may be surprised at the tricky music a box, a snowflake, some raindrops, and a kitten can make. Right before your eyes. And on the pages of this book. There is someone backstage watching, encouraging our performers but keeping them under control. Why not listen along?

(Fake Book). This collection pays tribute to one of the most influential players in jazz history with over 125 of Coltrane's most memorable works arranged in fake book notation, including: Afro Blue * Alabama * Blue Train (Blue Trane) * Body and Soul * Bye Bye Blackbird * Crescent * Giant Steps * I Want to Talk About You * Jupiter * Lush Life * My Favorite Things * Oleo * So What * Summertime * and more.

When a violinist begins to play, the song is transformed into vivid shapes and colors.

A spectacular musical and scientific journey from the Bronx to the cosmic horizon that reveals the astonishing links between jazz, science, Einstein, and Coltrane More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander follows suit, using jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe. Following the great minds that first drew the links between music and physics-a list including Pythagoras, Kepler, Newton, Einstein, and Rakim — The Jazz of Physics reveals that the ancient poetic idea of the "Music of the Spheres," taken seriously, clarifies confounding issues in physics. The Jazz of Physics will fascinate and inspire anyone interested in the mysteries of our universe, music, and life itself.