Reviews for Jazz for Kids

Billboard Magazine - July 1, 2000

ALL THAT JAZZ: Boston-area singer Lisa Yves has produced and compiled Jazz for Kids - Everybody's Boppin', featuring Yves singing with her own students on standards like Twisted, In a Mellow Tone, and Sing, Sing, Sing and on a number of her own compositions. The album appears on DCC Compact Classics, wholesaled by Ryko Distribution.

TNT, Winter 2001

Jazz for Kids - Everybody's Boppin' by Lisa Yves & Luli Music Publishing (DCC Compact Classics, 2000, ASIN B00004TKO9) is a must for every classroom, home & library. From the moment Louis Prima's Sing, Sing, Sing, sung by children, ages 6 - 14, begins, you'll be hooked - clapping, tapping, snapping and singing along [the words for the songs are included.] I'm Beboppin' Too plays with vowels in a musical style that is irresistible. 18 songs, many written by Yves and sung by her, are not only jazzy but teach the basics of jazz as in Alphabet Scat, or help listeners tap out 5/4 time as in Counting to Ten. If you think Bach and Dizzy are worlds apart, you haven't heard A Night with Bach in Tunesia. The icons of jazz, Louie, Duke, Miles, Bird et. Al. have not been neglected. This is an interactive CD that sings, swings and soars. The musicians accompanying Yves groove with a "smoking" sound that makes you sit up and listen. YOU'VE 'GOTTA' HEAR IT!

Johnny Adams

CD PICK OF THE WEEK - Jazz for Kids
Throughout my radio career, I have always maintained and promoted the opinion that if America's only original musical art form, jazz, was to survive, our young people must be made aware of its importance. That's why I must praise this new release by Lisa Yves that features some of her musical students, who range in age from six to fourteen. Yves teaches her students that there is more to music than just rock, that jazz is a more inventive way of musical communication. She loves and sings jazz, and has convinced her students that they, too, can enjoy singing along. There are eighteen songs on this recording, most of which are tunes recorded by some of the great musicians, such as Dizzy Gillespie's Night in Tunesia, Miles Davis' Boplicity, Neil Hefti's Cute and Louis Prima's Sing, Sing, Sing. The release also features several original tunes by Yves. This is authentic boppin', whether it shuffles, boogies, or bops. Yves shows a knack as a lyricist with tunes like Bird and Diz, Alphabet Scat, and Jazzabye. This is a dynamic debut from a new face on the scene. My dear friend, the late Cal Tjader, once told me, "The viewpoint may change, the form may change, but if it's jazz it still has to swing." Pick up a copy, sit back and let Lisa Yves and the kids make you swing.

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Jazz for Kids
PO Box 762
South Easton, MA 02375
1-877-4-BOPPIN
Email: lisawinner@comcast.net

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