Go Baby Go

The Baby Loves Jazz Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 1, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Verve
• ASIN: B000G759FI
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,587 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you're a jazz fan and a parent, why don't you have this album?, October 7, 2006

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Melanie Wilson "mongoliamel" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Go Baby Go (Audio CD)

Everyone has a friend who has a collection. Maybe she collects ceramic cows or Tupperware or Elvis dolls. This fascination borders on fanaticism and it's ever so costly, but it makes finding gifts for your friend very simple.

If you happen to have such a friend with a jazz CD fetish, I mean, collection, here's your next gift for them: Baby Loves Jazz.

The original intention of the Baby Loves albums was to introduce children to different musical forms without making the music sound like a take-off of Best of Smurfs. Baby Loves Jazz is a delightful introduction to jazz for children, but it won't make adult jazz buffs cringe.

The winning combination of this CD is the educational component and the familiarity of the songs. Children will recognize the traditional tunes, like "Old MaCDonald" and "Wheels on the Bus", so they'll be able to sing along with them right off the bat. Then they'll really get the jazz flavor. These songs are superbly spiced up and colorful. Old MaCDonald is a bandleader, for example, and in the song "Ten Little Monkeys," the doctor comes in at one point and declares, "What are y'all doing in this bedroom?"

Musical instrument profiles are peppered around the CD, so kids get exposed to the specific sounds of instruments used in jazz: drums, bass, piano, saxophone, trumpet. The CD pulls off jazz sophistication with children's verse and learning.

Baby Loves Jazz was performed by some very popular names in jazz including Sharon Jones (The Dap Kings), John Medeski (Medeski, Martin, and Wood), and Steven Bernstein (Sex Mob). It was released along side a new series of books of the same name.

If you're a jazz fan and a parent, why don't you have this album? If you're a friend of a jazz-loving parent, this is a winning gift. - Caity McCardell

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A nice change from the usual kids' songs, October 31, 2006

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minnemom (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Go Baby Go (Audio CD)

My kids love the traditional "kids sing" music, but all the songs seem to sound the same after a while. I bought Baby Loves Jazz before a long car trip, mostly to save my sanity by having something a little different. And my kids (ages 5, 3, and 2) love it! I also like that they're learning a new genre of music. My 3-year-old's favorite is "Scat Song," the 2-year-old prefers the ABC song, and I'm a fan of the Banana Boat song. I'm hoping that in time I'll be able to slip in my Norah Jones or Michael Buble CD's without them noticing...

I'm hoping for more CD's from these musicians in the future. They'll be on my to-buy list right away.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jazz for Everyone, April 14, 2007

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Stacy F. Starkweather "stacystarkweather" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Go Baby Go (Audio CD)

If you hate jazz that's OK, but please please please give your kid the chance to love it. The whole series is delightful. My 2 1/2 daughter Ella (named after guess who?) loves this music and sings and dances to it all the time. I can have music on for her that doesn't make me feel I am in an elevator. This disc is for serious music fans who want their kids to be serious fans. This disc, combined with a study diet of Beatles, They Might Be Giants "NO", Carol King's "Really Rosie" and the music you really love, and your kid has a chance of escaping from the corporate mainstream trough of music with no personality and finding music that is personal, fulfilling, and important to her/him. Buy this albums...it rocks! Steve Bernstein is a genius!