Who Was Louis Armstrong?

Who Was Series

by Yona Zeldis McDonough

Synopsis

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.

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Book Information

Copyright year 2004
ISBN-13 9780448433684
ISBN-10 0448433680
Class Copyright
Publisher Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Subject Biography & Autobiography;Juvenile Nonfiction
File Size 28 MB
Number of Pages 112
Length of Recording 2
Shelf No. KT545
Grade Range 3 - 7
Ages 8 - 12
Lexile 780L