Everyone has a friend who has a collection… maybe it’s ceramic cows or Tupperware or Elvis dolls. It borders on fanaticism and it’s ever so costly (but makes gifts for your friend very simple). If you have such a friend with a jazz cd fetish… I mean, collection, here’s your next gift for them: Baby [...]
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Toucan Jam’s Kelly Mulhollan and Donna Stjerna, with experience in music and performance under their belts, have created a beautiful CD teeming with colorful images, unique characters, worldly instruments, and sometimes impossible rhymes. You try getting away with rhyming “man” with “Houston” in your stuffy poetry class – but it works wonderfully on Toucan Jam’s [...] The mark of a great children’s album is how likely it is parents will listen to it when the kids aren’t around – or at least how likely it is that the parent won’t resent the music sticking in their heads for days. My daughter was loaned a Sesame Street dance video once and I [...] If a child is sitting in front of a television, We are . . . The Laurie Berkner Band is award-winning entertainment they would love. The Laurie Berkner Band is an upbeat group with an extraordinary talent for writing and performing. The band’s energy is contagious, so sitting is not what it inspires. Songs on the [...] On the surface, All Together Now: Beatles Stuff for Kids of All Ages is a simple collection of cover songs. Every local band does the Beatles, right? But this album is an energetic compilation of songs that manage to unite kids and their caregivers around music. It encourages parent-child interaction because the music is sung [...] Once in a while I review a product that’s such a gift that I wonder if it’s my birthday. SteveSongs’ Marvelous Day is one of those. What an absolute treat it is to listen to this album over and over again, as requested by my kids! Song’s vocals are James Taylor meets Mister Rogers (but [...] Steve Kramer’s Kettle of Dreams: Songs of Hope, Humor and Discovery for Kids and Their Parents Kettle of Dreams is an eclectic compilation of folk songs with a Hawaiian tone, created by the award-winning composer Steve Kramer. With not a hint of modern MTV-style music for children, the album features rarely more than a guitar and [...] Product Review: Putumayo Kids Presents: Asian Dreamland Putumayo has a long list of compilation cds, including its Putumayo Kids series. The company collects songs from around the world in a variety of musical styles, and the results are an impressive offering. The company’s Asian Dreamland cd lives up to its dreamland title. This is a gorgeous album, [...] John Lithgow: The Sunny Side of the Street “Getting to know you, getting to know all about you.” So begins John Lithgow’s latest album for children, The Sunny Side of the Street, which initially sounds mature, a truly Old School song. Soon he shouts out for introductions from his backup singers, the children from United Nations [...] Music Review: Charity and the JAMBand – Rock Your Socks Off Charity and the JAMBand are an eclectic collection of performers, including Charity herself who is a mother of two children, a singer, a songwriter, and a mathematician. “Rock Your Socks Off” is her fourth album. Charity’s voice is sultry, versatile and beautiful. The band members’ [...] |
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