BEFORE JOHN WAS A JAZZ GIANT: A Song of John Coltrane, Weatherford, Carole

— $16.95
32 pgs. full color 2008 Elementary, middle school.
Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South in the 1930s: preachers praying, music on the radio, the bustling of the household. These vivid noises shaped John’s own sound as a musician. Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls have composed an amazingly rich hymn to the childhood of jazz legend John Coltrane.

Curriculum Applications: 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies- biography, Jim Crow, depression era; Grade 4 - 12 English/Language Arts, Music.

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