![]() Sean Qualls has always taken a bent that I find more practical. So it is that Chris Raschka comes out with his Charlie Parker Played Be Bop and Mysterious Thelonious titles while Walter Dean Myers and his son extol the multiple virtues of Jazz itself. If jazz is an improvisational art, then it must burn in the bones of many an illustrator to bring that very concept to life. Much of this, I suspect, has much to do with illustrators feeling a kinship with that particular style of music. ![]() Sometimes I think that all the rock and roll, blues, and opera picture books combined can't compare in number to the sheer amounts of jazz-related texts that cross library doorsteps every year. ![]() Picture books about jazz are the oddest little critters, aren't they? There are a surprising number of them, first of all. ![]()
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