Who Was Louis Armstrong?

Name: Who Was Louis Armstrong?
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough
ISBN: 9780525629658

Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough

Series: Who Was?

Narrator: Kevin Pariseau

Unabridged: 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 03/26/2019

Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Music, African American & Black Nonfiction, Biographical

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.

About The Author

Yona Zeldis McDonough is the author of the novels You Were Meant For Me, Two of a Kind, A Wedding in Great Neck, Breaking the Bank, In Dahlia’s Wake, and The Four Temperaments, as well as nineteen books for children. She is also the editor of two essay collections and is the Fiction Editor at Lilith magazine. Her award-winning short fiction, articles, and essays have been published in anthologies and in numerous magazines and newspapers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Genevieve

A very interesting book about the life of Louis Armstrong. There was a lot of things about Satchmo that I didn't know like he had been sent to Colored Boys reform school for shooting a gun in the streets or that he had been married three times. I loved this book and it is a good source if you want t......more