Full name: If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong

Author: Roxane Orgill Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780618250769 061825076X

Roxane Orgill's vivid words and Leonard Jenkins's dramatic pictures combine to tell the story of a boy who grew up to be a giant of jazz--the legendary and beloved Louis Armstrong. As a poor boy in New Orleans, where music was everywhere--dancing out of doorways, singing on street corners, crying from the cornet of the great Joe Oliver for all to hear--Louis longed for a horn so that he too could sing, bring home pennies, and, most of all, tap happy-feet blues till the sun rose. It wasn't going to be easy. Many things, not all of them good, had to happen before he got his horn. But when at last he did, he sent music spiraling up into the New Orleans night sky like a spinning top gone crazy. Similar books: Pops by Terry Teachout Django by Bonnie Christensen Spirit Seeker by Gary Golio Thelonious Monk by Robin Kelley Muddy by Michael Mahin Divided Soul by David Ritz Footprints by Michelle Mercer So What by John Szwed Louis Armstrong by Laurence Bergreen Duke Ellington by Andrea Davis Pinkney Nick Drake by Patrick Humphries Madonna by J. Randy Taraborrelli Jim Morrison by Stephen Davis Courtney Love by Poppy Z. Brite Miles Davis by Ian Carr Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas Wager with the Wind by James Greiner Like the Roman by Simon Heffer Memoirs by Pablo Neruda