The Jazz Fly | 
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Product Description
While seeking directions to town, a fly picks up the rhythm of the answers he gets from a frog, a hog, a donkey, and a dog, and then uses these sounds to jazz up his band's music.
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Customer Reviews:
• Everyone Stops To Listen! 18 March, 2006
I first heard the cd that comes with this book when my 5th grade teacher played it in class. Everyone stopped what they were doing to listen even two kids who hardly ever stop talking. My teacher's a drummer and so am I so we LOVED the jazz beat. I read that another reviewer thought the beats were on 1 and 3. Anyone can hear the hi-hat clicking on beats 2 and 4. This is real jazz played by real jazz musicians! (I don't think that reviewer is a musician.) The thing I liked most about The Jazz Fly besides the music, was the illustrations and the way it introduce scat as a kind of language. It IS a language, ZA-BA-ZA-BOO-ZA-BA. Everyone can speak it their own way.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2S3F5IOF9560H
• General Music 02 July, 2008
This book is great for a K-2 general music lesson. It has a great introduction to jazz music and improvisation. All my students wanted to hear more jazz and move to jazz after reading this book. Can also be easily used as a sub lesson, since the whole book is on CD.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1Y62KJBNNRWCE
• Encore! Encore! 01 September, 2008
Rock-n-Reading! The Jazz Fly rocks and excites children about reading. I have used this book in class with Pre-K up to fifth grade students. I purchased two copies for my granddaughter. We keep one at her house as well as mine. This soon to be classic has a fun character story as well phonetic skills. It's a great read and tons of fun.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2V8OR0RWPYXY5
• Hippest Book On Jazz For Kids 08 March, 2006
This book is solid! One of the best books on the market today about jazz for young kids. This is the story of a jazz fly who ultimately gigs on drums at a club following his encounters with several other creatures. The fly riffs off their contributions to create his own improvised session. Children love the rhyme scheme and enjoy scatting to the sounds of za ba za boo za ba zee za ro nee ... Read it aloud and children can't resist trying to repeat the syllables in song. The book is sold with a CD that compliments the text and informs the reader on how it should be read aloud rhythmically. I highly recommend this book to anyone who teaches young children or has a child of their own that they want to expose to jazz.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3BDP0RL64BZ47
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