num_pages: 32
description: Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South in the 1930 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.Before John Was a Jazz Giant is a 2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book and a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
language: English
title: Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)