Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the roots of jazz music.

The jazzy alphabet boogies and sings, making hot, cool, pizzazzy street-jammin' jazz.

When a mouse scurries into a house and starts to play jazz music, other animals join in, one by one, each using his or her own particular talent.

Nobody appreciates Willie Jerome's jazz trumpet-playing except his sister, who finally makes Mama listen to the music speak.

A young rat hides in his father's bass case and tags along as he plays and scats around the big city.

"Jazz is a scat-singing fish who is way too noisy! Will he every find a place to play without being shoo, shoo, shooed away?"--Page [4] cover.

A young boy imagines his grandfather playing with jazz music greats up in heaven.

One night at the Hotel Midnight, the lyrics written and sung by jazz musician Rat are those inspired by his friendship with Bat, who plays the piano and writes the tunes.

A fly uses a combination of Spanish and jazz scat to ask a sloth, a monkey, and a mackaw to transport his band to a tropical concert site, and then to talk sense to an anteater who interrupts their performance. Includes author's note on how language, rhythm, color, and life are depicted in the book.

A child prodigy at the piano sprinkles her music with a little jazz. Includes an afterword about the life of the twentieth-century jazz musician, Mary Lou Williams.