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All that Jazz - Kid's Version
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Christian P. is our randomly selected winner of the 5-title Putumayo CD collection. Thanks everyone for your entries!
Putumayo Kids just released what's destined to be your kid's new favorite: Jazz Playground. From bebop and swing to Latin and African jazz, this multicultural CD celebrates the vibrant diversity and global influence of jazz and will get the whole family grooving. (Read on for a chance to win some Putumayo CDs.)
I've loved their Playground series since my daughter was young and would play a CD over and over and over again. We quickly realized that Putumayo CDs pleased her as well as us! It turns out that Dan Storper, founder of Putumayo, had that exact plan in mind:
With our children's series, my professional goals and responsibilities as a father of a 4-year-old son seem to merge. I'm always looking for songs that William will love and, despite playing scores of time, won't drive my wife and me crazy. Jazz Playground is filled with lots of loveable, jazzy songs that are great fun for kids but which parents not only can bear but may even press the replay button for themselves. One of the songs, Cumbamba, by Cuban-American, Jose Conde, was recorded especially for this CD after I'd heard a scratchy, early version that I thought would sound nice if re-recorded. The cross-cultural collaborations and tasteful versions of children's favorites like Sing a Song of Sixpence, Mary Had a Little Lamb and the Spiderman theme song make this a one of kind musical journey that the whole family can appreciate.Want a taste? Try this track from Oran Etkin for Little Lamb Jam. Note: you can simply listen online using the player below, or you can "right click" to download the mp3 file.
Want more? Pick up Jazz Playground, now available in our stores. Bebop, swing and all that jazz: cool tunes for global kids!
Want to win? By March 16th, enter a comment letting us know what CD you or your kids listen to incessantly, and we'll choose a random winner to receive a 5-title Putumayo package - a little something for everyone.
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My 4 year old son loves Jack Johnson's Curious George Soundtrack, while I've been listening to a-ha's "Foot of the Mountain".
03/10/2010 2:56:21 PM CST
My 7 year old son loves Muse (and the entire Twilight Soundtrack)...don't get me wrong--they love the Imagination Movers too!!! Jazz Playground sounds phenomenal though!
03/10/2010 2:56:28 PM CST
I don't have any kids, but I have 16 2nd grade students! Does that count?! We listen to Putumayo cd's all the time in our classroom and we do the project with the putumayo passports. They LOVE listening to Putumayo's Caribbean Playground, Women of Africa, African Playground and One World (they usually choose Women of Africa when reading). I love listening to them sing along in another language while they are writing.... even if they don't know what they are saying :)
03/10/2010 2:57:05 PM CST
Lucy's favorite cd right now is the Putumayo kids world playground cd! Aside from that, Ben Harper can make her stop in her tracks!!
03/10/2010 2:58:10 PM CST
It's not a music CD, but we listen to stories by Robert Munsch. As for music we listen to Derek Webb Stockholm Syndrome a lot.
03/10/2010 3:00:23 PM CST
Before I even read what you were giving away, I was getting ready to write: Putumayo World Music. How cool is that???? Wow, thanks for giving away such a great gift. I hope we win. Fingers (and toes) crossed! ♥
03/10/2010 3:03:28 PM CST
My daughters (3rd and 5th graders) and I love listening to Green Day's American Idiot (not necessarily entirely appropriate for their ages, I know, but great music!) We had it playing in the car for weeks. The 5th grader also loves Coldplay, and the 3rd grader loves the Beatles!
03/10/2010 3:03:35 PM CST
My daughter and I listen to the last Michael Jackson CD. She came to love him through me and that is super.
03/10/2010 3:06:29 PM CST
Well our kids are early adopters and they have pandora stations that they control and program from the roku. Really it is easy, and one great thing about pandora is that Putumayo is already a station.
03/10/2010 3:07:30 PM CST
We LOVE Choo-Choo Soul....a great CD to learn ABC and numbers..and just a great fun CD with a great beat and educational~~
03/10/2010 3:07:51 PM CST
My son and I LOVE They Might Be Giants' "Here Comes the 123's"! This cd makes both us dance!
03/10/2010 3:08:32 PM CST
This is awesome! Super zippy and fun!
03/10/2010 3:11:10 PM CST
My kids are 3 and 1 and there are 2 CD's we play nonstop, one in the car and one at home.
The first is produced by Music For Little People: Ted Jacobs' A Child's Garden of Songs. It features the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson (A Child's Garden of Verse) set to beautiful Celtic music and we all love it!
The second is "Songs for Saplings" by Dana Dirksen. It teaches children simple Bible verses to remember and Dana's pure, clear voice and sweet, simple acoustic guitar, along with the precious harmony of the childrens' voices, is a favorite in our home.
03/10/2010 3:11:52 PM CST
We have Rocknoceros "Dark Side of the Moon Bounce" on constant rotation - it's fun, educational, and hip/rockin' enough my husband and I don't get sick of it.
03/10/2010 3:12:08 PM CST
My kids love Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, They Might Be Giants and Barenaked Ladies. My 7 y.o. son is a huge fan of Josh Groban. They also listen to Laurie Berkner quite a bit. Oh yeah, Dan Zanes too. We love all kinds of music here :)
03/10/2010 3:16:16 PM CST
Oh, and, not trying to get an extra entry, but I forgot to add that we love Putumayo music too and I have been using World Playground with kids (I used to teach) for almost 10 years! My son loves it. Our close ties are with Animal Playground (my son begs for "No More Monkeys Jumpin' on the Bed!") and Celtic Dreamland...the song on there by Susan McKeown has a very special meaning for me and my daughter, and I even emailed the artist personally for a translation from Gaelic, which she graciously provided. I am so grateful to Putumayo for putting beautiful, world-wide folk music out there that we can all learn from! My kids are so musical and I love that they aren't limited to the same 5 songs I knew as a kid...you know, "Twinkle Twinkle", "ABC's", "A Tisket, A Tasket"...
03/10/2010 3:16:17 PM CST
We listen to Putamayo's Celtic Dreamland all the time because my daughter has a hard time going to sleep :) Would love some Jazz!!
03/10/2010 3:18:08 PM CST
My daughter insists on listening to only "Fascinating Creatures" by Frances England whenever we are in the car. My daughter is 3 years old and it's the perfect mood music for her, fun lyrics and lots of recognizable terms. She laughs out loud when she hears "Blueberry Pancakes" because there's a line that sings about flipping the pancakes in the air with the blue berries in the sky... Love it!
03/10/2010 3:20:25 PM CST
The Curious George Soundtrack is the favorite in our minivan, for both my kids and myself!
03/10/2010 3:20:32 PM CST
Little Bird CD by Elizabeth Mitchell is my daughter's favorite. We have given several of these CDs as baby gifts.
03/10/2010 3:21:56 PM CST
My son and I listen to many of the Putumayo cds. They are fantastic, adults and playground ones. The kid's cd that we listen to the most is Ziggy Marley's Family Time.
03/10/2010 3:30:31 PM CST
My 7 year old daughter LOVES Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT. She listens to it in the car & @ home ALL the time. HELP! :-)
03/10/2010 3:30:53 PM CST
Medeski Martin and Wood have a great children's album that I play at school, I teach 3 and 4 year olds. "Let's Go Everywhere" with everything from a Nursery Rhyme remix to new takes on Schoolhouse Rocks favorites!
03/10/2010 3:30:57 PM CST
Van Morrison's greatest hits has been on repeat now for the past month. Domino is our son's favorite song.
03/10/2010 3:31:54 PM CST
We listen to the Mother Earth lullaby CD often! Love it!
03/10/2010 3:33:31 PM CST