If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville. But it was Louis Armstrong's own passion and genius that pushed jazz into new and exciting realms with his amazing, improvisational trumpet playing. His seventy-year life spanned a critical time in American music as well as black history.
- ISBN10 0448433680
- ISBN13 9780448433684
- Publish Date 29 December 2004 (first published 1 December 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint Penguin Workshop
- Format Hardcover (US Digest)
- Pages 112
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780448433684