Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the roots of jazz music.

Ruby's loud voice annoys everyone around her, until she learns to control her volume with the help of her new jazz musician friends.

Nicky, a black cat with yellow eyes, becomes a jazz musician and jams with such stars as Quincy Jones and Lena Horne.

Hip Cat journeys to the city by the bay to live his dream of being a jazz musician.

After dancing to music on the radio before she goes to bed, a young girl learns how to sing scat when Louis Armstrong comes to her in a dream. Includes facts about Louis Armstrong and scat singing.