Jingles Books

As a Primary School Teacher for 30 years,I loved this book not only for the colorful illustrations but also for the charming story of a little boy and his shadow. I have read this book to grades K-2 students and they wanted to continue to read it on their own,again and again.They can readily recognize the Nursery Rhyme Characters and relate to them.I have used this book in many writing workshops.Children love to take the basic format of the story and create new adventures and characters for Johnny as well as themselves.The book can also be used in literacy centers and kid's writing journals.It is a great learning tool in the classroom and would most certainly be enjoyed by anyone who reads it!I would love to see this book included in a Guided Reading Program. Just Wonderful!!!!

Written and illustrated by Thomas Zarraonandia, Johnny Jingle is a large softcover picture book which is recommended for kids ages two to twelve. Johnny Jingle is a young boy who loses his shadow and searches for it all over, even amid his friends in Mother Goose land. Rhyming verse and simple yet colorful pictures enhance this silly, friendly, entertainingly original tale.

I love Johnny and his shadow! I love to read the book over and over again!

The complete book on Jazz rhythm... It is definitely an in-depth study on all there is with jazz rhythm, while almost. It has so many variations and chord substitutions that will keep you busy for years. I especially love the chord voicing. The chords are rootless and or played on the upper light strings, (strings 4 down to 1). That is the best location for comping along with a bass players and or piano players or for expressing the melody or for chord soloing style.

The patterns are 4 bars or so in length and Larry gives you indications as to where they can be placed as substitutions for the original arrangement. This will allow you to add variety to any arrangement.
An additional usage I found helpful is to start creating improvised lines over the patterns or in between them as fills to spark up your comping. I am not that good with it yet, but I am getting better. The key is to comp the first chord on beats 1 and 2 and then add mini fill for beats 3 and 4 and even on 1 and 2 for the next bar before playing the next chord in the pattern. To get a ideas of this playing, check out players like Joe Pass, Herb Ellis' style of comping; then take any pattern from this book and try to mimic their style of playing.

But for you beginners, you will love this book for the simple reason that it will have you creating professional sounding arrangements, intros and ending. Pretty cool stuff in here, man

Jazz is the authentically American music form that had its beginnings in the brothels of New Orleans and evolved to become an established musical genre appreciated and supported around the world. Larry McCabe draws upon his many years of experience and expertise as the author of more than eighty published instructional music books for children and adults to present "101 Uptown Jazz Chord Progressions With Guitar Chord Frames", a spiral bound collection of jazz progressions for the guitar. specific fingers called chord frames are presented, along with blank music staves for each progression so that aspiring jazz guitarists wanting to write, perform, record, or teach melodies, licks, solos, and bass lines can do so with a professional competence. Of special note are the 'Suggested projects for Students" and the accompanying CD which includes all 101 progressions covering two-five-one, four-bar, eight-bar opening; sections, as well as eight-bar bridges, twelve-bar blues, sixteen-bar, and turnarounds. "101 Uptown Jazz Chord Progressions With Guitar Chord Frames" is an ideal instructional that is confidently recommended for dedicated and aspiring jazz guitarists alike!

This book was amazing. It's the perfect novel to read even if it isn't Christmas time. It's hilariously funny, with memorable characters and a catchy plot. A must-read for all fans of teen fiction!

Paul Nicholas is sure that this Christmas will be the absolute best. For once he has a great girlfriend, Sarah, who just happens to love Christmas as much as he does, or at least the present part; he's got the job of being the mall Santa Claus, and he's getting the absolute perfect present this year, a jeep. Everything is just fine, beyond fine, until Paul loses his lucky Santa hat, and everything goes wrong. First he finds his girlfriend making out with the mall Santa Claus, who just happens to be the same one who'll be training him for his job next week, his father electrocutes himself while putting up Christmas lights, and almost burns down the house at the same time, and his mother loses her job. Now, the kid who has always been the biggest nut over Christmas, has decided to get even with the holiday, and everything associated with it.

As someone who absolutely LOVES reading books about the Christmas season, I was ecstatic to find JINGLE BOY. Not only is it one of the only teen fiction Christmas books on the market, but it is also one of the funniest I've ever read. Reminiscent of John Grisham's SKIPPING CHRISTMAS, JINGLE BOY is a must for all who love (or hate) the holiday season. It will keep you laughing out loud throughout the entire holiday season. Possibly longer. Don't miss it.

Erika Sorocco

This has got to be one of most deliciously funny books I have read in years. Not since Westlake's Dortmunder series has there been such a great combination of action and humor. The adventures of Ace, Sweeper and Striker will send you on a roller coaster ride of suspense and laughter.
Judith R. Parker

Being a PI isn't the glamour job it's cracked up to be, a fact which Arthur Conan (Ace) Edwards knows all too well. Instead of spending his days questioning sultry femmes fatales, Ace spends his nights following disloyal husbands through a string of seedy bars and hoping that he won't wake up with his cats' claws under his skin.

Rarely does his luck hold , though, which seems to be par for the course for Ace. Often instrumental in putting him in the middle of chaos is his childhood friend, Jake Adams, who delights in calling him "Arty" and setting up a variety of strange and shady cases for his old pal. And it is in just this manner that Ace happens to meet the elf he knows only as "Stone."

From the very first page of Jingle's Christmas, you realize that Randy Rawls is not your typical mystery writer. Then again, most typical mysteries don't feature an elf, a truck full of toys and two table-cleaning cats within the first couple of chapters.

Having not yet read the other books in the Ace Edwards series, I was pleased to find that Jingle was a stand-alone story that gave the supporting characters just enough introduction to make me want to get to know them better. As the story is just over 150 pages, Rawls doesn't waste time dithering over details, but cuts to the heart of the matter right away. I found myself reading the end of Jingle's Christmas and thinking that it seemed to be over much too soon, that I wanted to know what happened after Ace opened the door and that Randy Rawls needs to get to writing on his next installment!

Despite the brevity of the novel, Rawls' characters are solid and likeable, reminding the reader of his own nosy, elderly neighbor or certifiably insane cats and making us laugh at our own similar misfortunes in spite of ourselves. Ace's story could easily be your own, which is what makes it so easy to lose yourself in the story that it's sometimes hard to pull back into reality. This, above all else, is the trademark of an excellent storyteller.

I won't spoil the story for those who haven't gotten a chance to read it, but suffice it to say that Jingle's Christmas is a fun and inventive novel that goes without hesitation where other mystery novels fear to tread, not wanting to break with the "serious" nature of the genre. Hopefully, Rawls' novels will get more attention now that they're being reprinted, because if Jingle is any indication of his previous novels, he deserves it a hundred-and-twenty percent! As for me, I'm headed to get the others in the Ace Edwards series as soon as possible and I heartily suggest you do the same.

Steve Karmen gives you a close up look at the advertising business from his point of view, the ad jingle composer. What once was an advertising staple, the jingle, well remembered by this boomer, has morphed into a cloning of pop songs. The unique jingle has gone the way of the horse and buggy, never to return. Not cutting edge enough, the author laments. Karmen's writing is relaxed, you get the feeling he is telling this story just to you. A very interesting read, difficult to put down, you will get to the end much too quickly.

In a review printed on the back cover of 'Who Killed the Jingle?' Joey Levine writes "For those in the business and those planning on entering it, read it and weep." That pretty much sums up this book. Karmen discusses the importance of networking in the industry, legal issues, union issues, fending for oneself in the world of corporate giants, and the industry today. Karmen writes from a "good old days" approach - lamenting the disappearance of original and memorable advertising. Sadness aside, this is an invaluable book for anyone trying to make it in the aural advertising industry.

Cuentos from the House on West Connecticut Avenue is filled with stories that allowed me to see the American experience through the eyes of a family new to this country, and it is written with enough skill to make it easy for me to feel at home with all of them. Recommended for anyone who enjoys remembering (or would like to be reminded of) why family is among the greatest blessings we have.

I picked this book up from the library and enjoyed it so much I had to run out and purchase a copy of my own. If you love jingles as much as I do you will enjoy this book. Some of the jingles include Gerber, Oscar Myer, Bosco, Chicklets, Aunt Jamima, Tootsie Roll and many more. The music in this book is fairly easy to read and play!

One of my friends who buys a lot of books from amazon.com told me that someone hated "The Jester Has Lost His Jingle" by David Saltzman and I couldn't believe it. It is one of the best children's books my family has ever read -- it is clever, funny, and filled with good advice and a great motto: "So when you're feeling lonely or sad or bad or blue, Remember where laughter's hiding...It's hiding inside of you." How anyone could not find this charming book a joy is beyond me. I first heard about the book when I watched "Good Morning America" several years ago. The story behind the book is as wonderful as the book itself. The author's mother promised her son, David -- a Yale graduate who was dying of Hodgkin's Disease -- that if he finished the book she would make sure it would be published. He unfortunately died in 1990, but his book lives on. I think the Washington Post just did a feature on "The Jester's Mom," Barbara Saltzman. It should be on that newspaper's Website. At any rate, five stars for the best children's book of the 1990s, maybe of all time.

A heartwarming story of a restless bear whose excitement keeps him awake the night before a holiday. It's a wonderful story to share with your children the night before Christmas, encouraging them to go to sleep so Santa can visit them.

This book really got me into reading. I love romance and this book gave it to me. I think that some books make us grow old but not this one. It let me see romance, humor and use my imagination on some parts. I really liked it and I hope other people like it as much as I did