Customer Reviews

Go Baby Go

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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

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.

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!

My 16 month old son loves to dance and listen to music, this is perfect for him.

We have several of the CD's in this series. This is one of my daughter's favorites. The nice thing about these CD's is that it's good music so it doesn't grate on your nerves when you have to listen to it over, and over, and over...again.

I have to admit I'm not really that into Jazz. Buuuut I love this CD! It contains jazzy renditions of favorite songs. It's definitely a pleasure to listen to this CD.

Afer receiving another book/CD in the series "Duck Ellington Swings Through the Zoo" and seeing how much my son loved it, I had to investigate others in the series.

Go Baby Go was my first purchase and I'm very happy with it. My 21-month old son and I have have a blast singing, dancing and bopping along with the beat. I like that he's being exposed to a different genre of music, and that its something that will keep growing with him as he gets older.

1/15/07: Nice album, easy listening for parents, but hasn't quite caught our nearly-one-year-old daughter's attention (yet?).

3/26/08: Our daughter is now two and she LOVES this CD! She asks for it by name almost every time we get into the car and yells out, "Baby loves jazz!" along with the CD as it starts.

Sorry to diverge from all the other reviews but I didn't think this was a great children's cd OR jazz cd. My personal view is that child's music- brought to life in different genres- should still maintain the integrity of the original music but also have the playfulness or energy that is meant for a child. Many of these songs are not jazz, that's the first comment. I see in the cover that many of the artists play 'funk' and 'soul', which is totally fine but let's keep the categories straight- those are not jazz! Secondly, many of them songs wer not child-friendly. The Banana Boat song is depressing and droning- that's just one example. And the original is joyful and uplifting.

This has good reviews from many others for a reason, I'm sure, but for me personally, by the end, I couldn't wait for it to be over and if you are looking for real jazz or really great children's music, I did not think this was it. My daughter, by the way, tuned out of this after the second or third song. I wish I could return it for a refund.

If you love jazz music, you will really like the fun twist on a lot of familiar songs. My son dances up a storm to the music....so fun to watch how excited he gets when this cd starts playing!! Cd was in good condition too...no scratches and plays perfectly.