Full name: Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum

Author: Robert A. Parker Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, Biographies, Music, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780375839658 9780553533927 0375839658 0553533924

Regardless of whether they’ve heard of jazz or Art Tatum, young readers will appreciate how Parker uses simple, lyrical storytelling and colorful and energetic ink-and-wash illustrations to show the world as young Art Tatum might have seen it. Tatum came from modest beginnings and was nearly blind, but his passion for the piano and his acute memory for any sound that he heard drove him to become a virtuoso who was revered by both classical and jazz pianists alike. Included in the back matter is a biography and bibliography. Similar books: Dizzy by Jonah Winter Spirit Seeker by Gary Golio Before John Was a Jazz Giant by Carole Boston Weatherford Duke Ellington by Andrea Davis Pinkney Django by Bonnie Christensen If I Only Had a Horn by Roxane Orgill Little Melba and Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown Muddy by Michael Mahin Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix by Gary Golio Jazz Age Josephine by Jonah Winter Thelonious Monk by Robin Kelley Pops by Terry Teachout So What by John Szwed Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews Miles Davis by Ian Carr When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan Mahalia Jackson by Nina Nolan Ballet for Martha by Jan Greenberg Strange Fruit by Gary Golio Mama Africa! by Kathryn Erskine