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

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

Galardonada con el premio Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award, una biograf a de la virtuosa del jazz afroamericana Melba Doretta Liston, una trombonista, compositora y arreglista musical pionera del siglo XX en una poca 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 os, Melba Doretta Liston se enamor de un tromb n grande y brillante, y pronto aprendi a tocar el instrumento. Cuando era una adolescente, el extraordinario don de Melba para la m sica la llev al mundo del jazz. Se uni a una banda dirigida por el trompetista Gerald Wilson y recorri el pa s. Superando obst culos de raza y g nero, Melba se convirti en una famosa trombonista y arreglista, transformando ritmos, armon as y melod as en magn ficas 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 a de hacer m sica, La peque a Melba y su gran tromb n es un maravilloso tributo a un m sico pionero y un gran h roe an nimo 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.