Jordan Fansler- The Sound that Jazz Makes

The sound that Jazz Makes is a children’s book that explains some of the brief history of slavery in America, and the conception and evolution of Jazz through this awful historical fact. The book binds beautiful illustrations with bits of history to explain the earliest forms of jazz, singing blues songs in the fields, as well as the big band version of this genre. This book would be very useful in an elementary setting, as it couples history with the great tradition of jazz in an informal way. An educator could very easily build a jazz section around this book and really be able to teach their students a lot.