If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician.
His seventy-year life spanned a critical time in American musi.
But it was Louis Armstrong\'s own passion and genius that pushed jazz into new and exciting realms with his amazing, improvisational trumpet playing.
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.
If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician