Who Was Louis Armstrong?

McDonough, Yona Zeldis

ISBN 10 : 0756931207 ISBN 13 : 9780756931209

Editeur : Perfection Learning, 2005

Synopsis

Who Was Louis Armstrong? A product of the rough New Orleans neighborhood known as Storyville, young Louis Armstrong may never have become a musician had it not been for a stint in reform school. But it was his passion and genius that made Armstrong into a an American jazz legend. Illustrations. Full description

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Perfection Learning
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0756931207
• ISBN 13: 9780756931209
• Reliure: Belle reliure
• Nombre de pages: 106
• Illustrateur: O'Brien LL. CSS Professor Of Old Age Psychiatry John