La Pequeña Melba Y Su Gran Trombón: (Little Melba and Her Big Trombone)

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Galardonada con el premio Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award, una biograf燰 de la virtuosa del jazz afroamericana Melba Doretta Liston, una trombonista, compositora y arreglista musical pionera del siglo XX en una 廧oca en la que pocas mujeres tocaban instrumentos y formaban parte de la escena del jazz.

Recipient of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor award, 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 played brass instruments and were part of the jazz scene.

A los siete a隳s, Melba Doretta Liston se enamor?de un tromb鏮 grande y brillante, y pronto aprendi?a tocar el instrumento. Cuando era una adolescente, el extraordinario don de Melba para la mica la llev?al mundo del jazz. Se uni?a una banda dirigida por el trompetista Gerald Wilson y recorri?el pa疄. Superando obst塶ulos de raza y g幯ero, Melba se convirti?en una famosa trombonista y arreglista, transformando ritmos, armon燰s y melod燰s en magn璗icas canciones para todos los grandes del jazz del siglo XX: Randy Weston, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Billie Holiday y Quincy Jones, por nombrar solo algunos.

Rebosante de entusiasmo y la alegr燰 de hacer mica, La peque鎙 Melba y su gran tromb鏮 es un maravilloso tributo a un mico pionero y un gran h廨oe an鏮imo del jazz.

At age seven, Melba Doretta Liston fell in love with a big, shiny trombone, and soon taught herself to play the instrument. By the time she was a teenager, Melba's extraordinary gift for music led her to the world of jazz. She joined a band led by trumpet player Gerald Wilson and toured the country. Overcoming obstacles of race and gender, Melba went on to become a famed trombone player and arranger, spinning rhythms, harmonies, and melodies into gorgeous songs for all the jazz greats of the twentieth century: Randy Weston, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, and Quincy Jones, to name just a few.

Brimming with ebullience and the joy of making music, Little Melba and Her Big Trombone is a fitting tribute to a trailblazing musician and a great unsung hero of jazz.