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11.8.25 - Part 2 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Celebrity Reader Week on RADIOI. We
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  have another special treat today and that is Michael Priestley.
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  We'll be reading Jazz Fly. It is a book about jazz.
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  This is Anne Glover. I'll be introducing him and then
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  turning the mic over to him for the reading. As
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  a reminder, RADIOI is a reading service for those who
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  are blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult
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  to read printed material.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Michael is a lecturer of Voice at UK and he
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  has been for the last five years. He has also
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  the director and founder of Uniting Voices Lexington. American baritone
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  Michael Priestley is a rising star on the operatic stage
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  and is also known for a versatile singing ability and
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  style that allow him to cross between genres from classical
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  repertoire to pop, contemporary and Broadway. He has received critical
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  acclaim from many of his performances, including Phantom in Phantom
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  of the Opera, which is just about one of my
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  favorite sets of music is Phantom is Beautiful, Scarpia and
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  Tosca Ford in Falstaff, Marcceello and La bo M, The
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  High Priest in Samson and Delilah, and Porgy and Jake.
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  In Porgy and Bess, mister Priestley has performed with many
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  major and regional opera houses and orchestras in the United
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  States and abroad. Recently, mister Priestley competed a European tour
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  of Porgy and Bess, where he received great reviews for
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  his performance of both Porgy and Jake. He also toured
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  Russia in a concert series with New York based Opera,
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  debuted with Opera Memphis in the role of Marulo with
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  a Rigoletto cover, and Opera de Montreal in the role
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  of Jake. Michael made his debut with the Butler University
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  Symphony Orchestra opposite world famous soprano Angela Brown in a
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  beloved performance of The Porgy and Best Suite. Michael has
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  performed with Cincinnati Opera, Opera Company, Philadelphia Opera, Memphis, Kentucky Opera,
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  Cleveland Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland, and Boem Opera of New Jersey.
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  Mister Presley's success on the concert stage has blossomed with
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  some of the nation's leading orchestras, including Oakland East Bay Symphony,
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  the Memphis Symphony, the Hamilton Fairfield Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra,
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  the Cleveland Pops, the Cincinnati Pops, and the Greater Trenton
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  Choral Society, as well as the American Spiritual Ensemble. Mister
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  Priestley has received numerous accolades. He was invited under scholarship
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  to participate in the International Vocal Arts Institute with Joan
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  Dorman and the Voice Experience with Cheryl Milne and Friends.
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  He was the first place graduate winner in the All
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  Tech Vocal Scholarship Competition at the University of Kentucky and
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  the recipient of awards in various competitions such as the
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  National Opera Association Vocal Competition Artist Division and the Fritz
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  and Jensen Vocal Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Currently,
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  mister Priestley is working on the release of his first album,
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  Spirituals and Hymns, followed by a series of concerts and
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  recitals in various venues across the United States. Michael resides
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  in Lexington with his wife, Letitia and three sons, Joshua,
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  Benjamin and Jace Brison. Well, Michael, we have some fun today,
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  I think with jazz fly. So tell us how you
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  came across this book. Have you has been something you've
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  been aware of a long time, or something that has
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  popped into your notice recently. Did you use it with
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  your sons?
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  Speaker 3: Actually, I had the pleasure of teaching at the Lexington
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  School for three years and there was one point I
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  don't remember exactly what point it was where I wanted
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  to read to them and it was really wanting to
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  expose them to other music, other types of music, and
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  so jazz popped in my head. And I colleague had
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  this book and the bookshelf and it looked interesting. Yeah, well,
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  this book is really nice. I liked this book and
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  I started to read it and it has all these
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  sounds about the instruments and also the insects. Oh, that's
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  in the book. So I thought that was really cool,
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  and I had this great time reading it, and I said,
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  you know, it would be nice to share this with
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  the world, and hints, we're reading it today.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome. Well, I will turn it over to you and
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  you're reading of the Jazz Fly.
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  Speaker 3: Off you go. The Jazz Fly written by Matthew Gollup,
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  illustrated by Karen Hankey. On the cover, we see the
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  jazz Fly in his tuxedo and playing his drum set.
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  The jazz Fly has huge eyes. He has a three
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  drum setup with a symbol on each side. His hands
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  are holding the drumsticks in a v and he has
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  a big smile. On the title page, we are introducing
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  to the cast the jazz Fly. We already heard about
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  him from the cover. Willi the Worm, who plays a
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  bass violin, which is a very big instrument, and Willie
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  plays with his tale. Nancy the Gnat who plays a saxophone.
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  Her eyes are big too, but not as big as
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  the jazz flies. And finally, Sammy the Centipede, he has
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  a lot of arms, who plays you guessed it, the piano.
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  This book was copywritten in two thousand by self publisher
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  Matthew Gallop. On this page, Willie the Worm and Sammy
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  the Centipede are bugging down. On the dedication page we
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  see Nancy the nat is in front of her dressing
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  room nearer putting on her lipstick. She wears a dress
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  with a short, ragged skirt and fancy high heels with
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  bows on them. To my family and to the children
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  everywhere who have learned to speak a second language. For
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  my mom and in memory of my dad, and with
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  love to Bob, Chris Becky and Doctor Brown. Pages one
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  and two, we see a dog and a jazz fly
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  flying over a frog on his log. It looks like
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  late evening and a round sunset z A fly buzzed by.
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  It was late in the day and he was long lost,
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  so he flew to a frog that was sitting on
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  a log and asked the frog which way to town?
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  Page three. Here is our frog on the log. The
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  jazz fly is hovering above him. Zi baza boozo bozi
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  Ooh whoa me? The frog didn't get the way. The
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  jazz fly talked ribbit. The frog answered ribb it, ribb it.
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  Oh my. We see the big backside of a very
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  large hog and the fence around the pigsty On page four.
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  The hog has a little curly tail and big ears.
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  He has black spots on his back. The jazz fly
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  is hovering above him too. The fly flew to a
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  hog in a bog. He stayed clear of the mud
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  to keep his black tucks clean, and asked the hog
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  which way to town. On page five, now we see
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  the head of the hog and the jazz fly sitting
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  on his nose. There is a half eaten piece of
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  watermelon near the hog. Maybe the jazz fly came to
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  eat dinner. Zi by zag booza zi why row me oink?
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  The hog answered, oink oink. Next, on page six, we
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  see the jazz fly hovering above a donkey. The donkey
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  has been ears and had several pieces of grass hanging
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  out of his mouth. The fly saw a donkey short
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  and gray, so he flew zz to ask him the
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  way ziby zah boozaba zi za rolln. The donkey just
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  begin to bray hee ah hee ah. On page eight,
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  finally we see a dog sitting in the doorway of
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  his doghouse. He's happy to see the jazz sply. At last,
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  the fly flew to a furry dog one more time.
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  He asked, zabay za boo zaby zi za.
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  Speaker 2: Roll n.
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  Speaker 3: Roof roof roof barked the pooch right away. She pointed
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  her nose to say, go that way. The jazz fly
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  passes buildings on both sides on page nine, their windows
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  all lit up for the evening. The jazz fly flew
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  past weeds and clover till he reached a street that
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  was paved all over. He leaned left down the alley.
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  Right through the door, he saw fancy waiters creeping all
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  across the floor. On this page, we see the jazz
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  fly go through a doorway and past the door we
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  see lots of tables with long tablecloths and waiters in
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  suits carrying drinks. Across the room. We see a little
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  corner of a stage with a drum that says jazz
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  Bugs on the side. On the next page, oh, now
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  we see inside the restaurant. There are lots of customers.
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  They are all bugs, and all the other members of
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  the band are there too, on the stage, and they
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  all have their instruments, except we don't see the jazz fly.
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  They are looking worried, and they are staring at a
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  clock on the wall. Beatles and maggots had come to
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  hear the show. They were dining with the locusts by
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  the fireflies glow. The band was looking antsy. It was
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  half past eight, they grumbled, Man, this fly is always late.
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  The fly tugged at his sleeves, strolled to his drums,
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  twirled all around his brushes, and counted off a song
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  Za zi a za zoo zoo ze. On the next page,
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  we see a green slash of light across the page
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  just like a spotlight, while the worm inched up and
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  down his base b B boo A boom boom, a
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  b b boom a boom boom on the next page.
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  Then another red flash of light. Nancy the gnat sat
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  shade with her sax.
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  Speaker 4: Zeez a n no zeeza nona on the next page.
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  Speaker 3: And then the fly goes crazy on the drum solo,
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  but not before Sammy the centipede hit the piano keys
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  like a man with a hundred hands.
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  Speaker 5: Dae d boog you wool get dad a boog you
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  wool get dad a boogie wool get dee oh. Then
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  the fly swished with his brushes, swish swish, thumped his
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  bass drum, made his cymbals ring. We see a close
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  up of the jazz fly getting down with the drums,
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  and then all the bugs do their things, having a
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  great time like a chef stirring dinner in a pot.
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  He put it all together and dished it out hot
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  zap tine Zaida. The baby booms out beside the DoD oohoo.
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  Speaker 3: The fly was jamming, not scamming, but swimming like a salmon.
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  The next page, the big queen Bee is sitting on
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  a stool and points at the jazz Fly. But then
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  the club's queen Bee set down with the huff. This
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  band plays good, but that's not enough. I want a
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  sound that'll make bugs shout. I want a new beat,
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  or this band is out. The jazz fly looks worried.
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  On page twenty, the fly, who'd been very confident until now,
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  suddenly felt kind of small. He knew he'd have to
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  come up with something different if the jazz bugs were
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  to keep their jobs at the jazz club. Hum So
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  he thought and thought until the jazz flies drumming it
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  up with all the spot lights on him. The Fly
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  recalled the sounds he had heard that day. He mixed
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  them all up in a brand new way. He crossed
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  the bridge, stepped beyond the line, took a chance, and
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  began to shine. Zoom zappadu ribbt ribbt zuperdy boom bang
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  ink ink schwaz zappazaba haul hee haw zuber uber rough
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  rough roof zabad hal rony on zabadaba hee har ribbid
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  rivet team Well, the Beatles and the Maggots stopped eating
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  their child. Willie and Nancy and Sammy said Wow, the cockroach.
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  Waiters shouted, go man, go dig that fly. He can
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  really blow on this page. There are all the bugs
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  and all the animals from the farm in a huge limmo.
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  Guests who come to see the new thing that's happening
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  at the jazz Bugs tonight the joint was hopping, hopping,
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  wringling all on the floor. They never heard a sound
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  like this before.
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  Speaker 4: Now word got out about the jazz Bug, sound about
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  the white hot drummer who broke new ground. Beatles packed
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  the club, Locusts came by swarm. The jazz Bugs' names
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  went up in lights. And to make sure he never
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  again lost his way, the fly picked up his friends
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  in a limmo each day on zaibadobad dae ooh by
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  bad Dadaba rum Abadi byo badab.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Thank you, Michael. That was a wonderful and very.
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  Speaker 2: Energetic book. Lovely, lovely book about jazz. This concludes our
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  reading for today of The Jazz Fly, written and performed
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  by Matthew Gollup and illustrated by Karen Hanke. Your reader
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  has been Michael Priestley. This is Anne Glover signing off.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Please stay tuned for continued programming on Radio I thank
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  you for listening and have a wonderful day.