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Young John Coltrane Used to be all ears. And there Used to be so much to listen to growing up within the South within the Thirties: preachers praying, music at the radio, the bustling of the household. These vivid noises formed John’s own sound as a musician. Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls have composed an amazingly wealthy hymn to the childhood of jazz legend John Coltrane.
Before John Used to be a Jazz Giant is a 2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book and a 2009 Bank Street – Absolute best Kids’s Book of the Year.