For Your Grammy® Consideration & the never-ending haint blue melody
On a voyage to “the moon & the stars,” Mista Cookie Jar returns with his 5th children’s music LP.
An opus crowning his 16-year career, this “triple album” is an audio tour de force throughout space and time. The songs, both traditional and experimental, highlight the craft of lyricism and looping through a litany of genres from pop, folk, jazz, blues, hip hop to EDM.
With a whopping 25 features, the album showcases acclaimed musicians and community artists. The protective “haint blue” sheen of his signature concept, the Love Bubble, is imbued in each of the 35 tracks.
Mista Cookie Jar is your pilot along Haint Blue Air Flight LB143, exploring the celestial, the spectrum of emotions, the möbius nature of dreams, and the fun and funky rhythms of imagination.
It’s a heartwarming and powerful celebration of the bonds of family, coming of age, and the power of universal love.
In many ways, this album has been a ‘never-ending’ process. A post-COVID Mista Cookie Jar blue period. It’s an emotional album. This one had so many fragments — planets, rings, & asteroids — I just had to connect them all. It’s been a labor of love.
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This whole thing is a treasure map that leads inward to the heart. It’s an exciting ride, full of spontaneous musical twists and swerves. Incredibly detailed, with layers on layers of tenderness, playfulness, togetherness. This is what it sounds like when someone with a deep sense of their own inner-child allows it to run free. Years from now this album will still feel so fresh; and it just might take years to truly appreciate all that it is.
Uncle Jumbo, Houston Father, Musician & Grammy® Nominee
The never-ending haint blue melody, Mista Cookie Jar’s latest offering, is cosmically remarkable- a vast musical journey that weaves multiple genres (hip hop, lo-fi, jazz, gospel, and blues, just to name a few.) There are nods to hip-hop elders, ancestors, and Easter eggs galore. MCJ is EVERYONE’S hype man, intentionally providing inspiration, wisdom, and support through hooky, danceable, and singalong jams… and his plentiful collaborations are a who’s who of children’s music and speak to his sense of community within the kindie world. Who says, “The sky’s the limit?!” MCJ is here to show us that there *are no limits*, everything and everyone belongs, and his message from the very beginning: that love is infinite, and what makes the world go round.
Amylyza DeJesus, Nashville Mother & Musician
Mista Cookie Jar has released a masterpiece of an album! And it’s FEATURE LENGTH!! And star-studded!!! He is a pioneer in this genre, the king of collaboration, and one of the brightest lights in this scene!
Trevor Goober of The Goober Hour/The Zing Zangs & 2024 WCMA Best Children’s Artist
Featuring these 25 guest artists:
EJ Arsulo
Fyütch
Genevieve Goings
Orbit Deen
Uncle Dox
Ragtop
Leftover Cuties
The Zing Zangs
Uncle Jumbo
MC Liberry
Gregory Brown
Richard Singer
Colin “Music” Stanfield
Twinkle Time
Todd McHatton
Iwalani Music
Carly Mills
The Afterschool Bunch
Joanie Leeds
Father Goose Music
Andrew & Polly
Wendy & DB
River
Little Miss Ann
LZA
Ronnie Boy Kids
Throughout my entire career, the “kindie” community has influenced my art in countless ways. It’s an honor to create with all these amazing artists — collaborating often over great distances and sometimes never meeting in real life.
It amazes me to build off these talents beyond my own—the thrill of discovering what lies on the brink of our imaginations. So many brilliant musicians in the community have inspired my process.
And a special shout-out to those who shared their voices on this record . Y’all sweeten the music! So happy to have y’all along for the ride ✈️ 🍪🎶🪐🫶🏽
Mista Cookie Jar Bio
LA-based Filipino-American “kindie rocker” Mista Cookie Jar brings his urban-island-folky-rock-&-roll sounds to the world stage. Named by CBS as one of the best acts in Los Angeles, Mista Cookie Jar is a seasoned pro, touring venues such as the Kennedy Center, Lollapalooza, the Smithsonian, and the Getty to name a few.
Blending a background in creative writing, poetry & hip-hop production, his music is regularly featured on Sirius XM’s Kids Place Live, as well as a handful of Grammy nominated and winning albums. Drawing on 16 years & 5 albums of original material universally praised in the family music community, MCJ oozes positivity, & love, while embracing the inner child and fostering unique individual expression.
Cookie’s songs keep the party jumpin’ while easing the vibe on down to admire life’s beauty. Settle in as Mista Cookie Jar mixes a rock star excitement with the warmth of family music.
“Mista Cookie Jar provides enough solar power to power an entire dance floor.
Zooglobble
Mista Cookie Jar…happy…Cali…auditory Prozac.
Mama 411
He’s from Los Angeles, kind of a hipster, dresses really well and he’s clearly having fun with the music…how could you not love it?
Dan Zanes, USA Today
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Contact Mista Cookie Jar aka C.J. Pizarro: MistaCookieJar@gmail.com