Little Melba and Her Big Trombone

by Katheryn Russell-Brown

Book Overview

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Honor - American Library Association (ALA)
NAACP Image Awards Nominee - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

A biography of African American jazz virtuoso Melba Doretta Liston, a pioneering twentieth-century trombone player, composer, and music arranger at a time when few women, of any race, played brass instruments and were part of the jazz scene.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1600608981
• ISBN13: 9781600608988
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Lee & Low Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.6" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4