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Mary's Idea

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內容簡介 爵士鋼琴家 瑪莉的音樂點子 本書由《Yo! Yes?》《The Hello, Goodbye Window》 兩屆凱迪克獎得主Chris Raschka克里斯瑞卡插畫。描繪美國爵士鋼琴家、編曲家和作曲家Mary Lou Williams對音樂的熱情、創新，和對藝術的喜愛。三歲時，Mary自學彈鋼琴，十五歲時，就被認為專業人士了。她創作了數百首作品，錄製了數百首歌曲，並為包括Duke Ellington艾靈頓公爵和Benny Goodman班尼·固德曼改編歌曲，然而Mary因為性別和膚色而經常被美國樂壇忽視。 在Chris Raschka筆下，Mary的雙手像似有了魔法，讓黑白琴鍵飄出顏色，讓音符變成形狀，悠揚地飄入聽眾耳朵。故事畫面充滿節奏和動態的文字，彩色、跳動的音符躍然紙上。本書既是傳記，又是對想像力和創作的頌揚。 「在棕色牛皮紙上，明亮粉彩和隨意塗鴉成為音符，音符堆疊成和弦、脈動和音波，從創作者流向聽眾……押韻的文本像歌詞一樣簡潔但令人回味」- BooklistTwo-time Caldecott Medal winner Chris Raschka captures the sound, passion, innovation, and love of the arts that the renowned jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams shared with the world. Mary’s Idea is a stunning and transporting picture book about music and the creative process for readers of Trombone Shorty and Chris Raschka’s acclaimed books about musicians, including Charlie Parker Played Be Bop and Mysterious Thelonious. At the age of three, Mary Lou Williams taught herself how to play the piano. At the age of fifteen, she was considered a professional. An American jazz pianist and composer, Mary Lou Williams wrote hundreds of compositions, recorded hundreds of songs, and wrote arrangements for musicians, including Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman.Mary’s Idea is an exquisite picture book about Mary Lou Williams, an artist often overlooked in the canon of American music because of her gender and skin color. With a text full of rhythm and movement and illustrations that sing off the page, Chris Raschka’s picture book is equal parts a biography and a celebration of the imagination and creative process. Mary’s Idea will find readers in fans of Traci N. Todd and Christian Robinson’s Nina and Brian Selznick and Pam Muñoz Ryan’s When Marian Sang.Includes backmatter.

各界推薦

各界推薦 “A chromatic tribute to pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981). . . . Along with offering inspiration to young musicians, and like the other tributes to jazz greats that he has been writing and illustrating since the beginning of his career, this loving remembrance captures rich hints of his subject’s joy and sound. Elevating and evocative.” — Kirkus Reviews“Inspired by the life of jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams (1920–1981), Raschka, in ink, oil pastel, and watercolor, paints the figure’s face and body seated at a piano. . . . The music she creates appears as ribbons of bright swatched squares emanating from the instrument. In a book that’s less conventional biography than hymn to Williams’s spirit, the leitmotif ‘It was Mary’s idea’ underscores the musician’s charting her own course and making her own decisions . . . Back matter supplies more about Williams’s life.” — Publishers Weekly"Author-illustrator Raschka puts the power of music onto the page, with this poetic tribute to illustrious pianist-composer-conductor (and child prodigy) Mary Lou Williams. . . . On brown craft-paper backgrounds, loose scribbles of bright pastels become notes stacked into chords or pulses and waves of music flowing from creator to listener. . . . The rhyming text is spare yet evocative as any song lyric.” — Booklist

作者介紹

作者介紹 Chris RaschkaChris Raschka is the creator of many distinguished and award-winning books for children. He has received two Caldecott Medals—one for The Hello, Goodbye Window, written by Norton Juster, and one for his own A Ball for Daisy. He also received a Caldecott Honor for Yo! Yes? Chris Raschka was the US nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2012 and 2016 and has been awarded a New York Times Best Illustrated Book citation five times. He lives in New York City with his family.

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