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Who was Louis Armstrong

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  • Running Time: 00:53 hrs
    Narrator: Kevin Pariseau
    Publisher:
    Listening Library (Audio), 2019
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Running Time: 00:53 hrs
    Narrator: Kevin Pariseau
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: McDonough, Yona Zeldis
    Contributor: Pariseau, Kevin
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2019
    Summary:

    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.

    Genre:
    Music, Biographies and autobiographies, Juvenile nonfiction
    Subject(s): African American jazz musicians | Armstrong, Louis | Jazz musicians
    Original Publisher: New York, Listening Library (Audio)
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780525629665