Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound
by Kathleen Cornell Berman and Keith Henry Brown
Miles can’t sleep.
Taps his toes,
snaps his fingers,
can’t... read more
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- 4-8
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- Biography
- Nonfiction
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- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2019
- Text Complexity
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- Subject Headings
- Biographies
- Jazz musicians
- Jazz musicians--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Music
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Music | Jazz
- United States
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Davis, Miles--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Music | History
- Picture books
- African Americans--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Davis, Miles
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 20th Century
- Jazz musicians--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
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