LBPH is proud to a share a new locally produced title available for loan or download from BARD. Jelly Roll Morton was narrated in partnership with Obama Academy and produced and edited by the LBPH Studio Team.
How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz
Jonah Winter
DBC 10073
In this unusual and inventive picture book that riffs on the language and rhythms of old New Orleans, noted picture book biographer Jonah Winter turns his focus to one of America’s early jazz heroes in this perfectly pitched book about Jelly Roll Morton. For grades K-3. 2006.
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