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10. Juni 2024 · On January 1, 1913, Louis Armstrong attended a New Year’s Eve parade and shot six blanks from his stepfather’s .38 revolver. A policeman arrested him on the spot. Later that day, Judge Andrew Wilson sentenced the young boy to the Colored Waif’s Home, a reform school on the outskirts of New Orleans.
Louis Armstrong received his first formal music training at the Colored Waifs Home for boys, a regrettably named juvenile detention facility where a court sent him after he fired a pistol in the air on New Year’s Eve of 1912.
21. Dez. 2021 · Colored Waifs Home for Boys. As a young boy, Louis Armstrong was sent to a home for juvenile delinquents. It was at this home where he first learned how to play the bugle and cornet under the instruction of Peter Davis.
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The records by Louis Armstrong and His Five–and later, Hot Seven–are the most influential in jazz. Armstrong’s improvised solos transformed jazz from an ensemble-based music into a soloist’s art, while his expressive vocals incorporated innovative bursts of scat singing and an underlying swing feel. By the end of the decade, the popularity of the H...
In 1947, the waning popularity of the big bands forced Armstrong to begin fronting a small group, Louis Armstrong and His All Stars. Personnel changed over the years but this remained Armstrong’s main performing vehicle for the rest of his career. He had a string of pop hits beginning in 1949 and started making regular overseas tours, where his pop...
The many years of constant touring eventually wore down Armstrong, who had his first heart attack in 1959 and returned to intensive care at Beth Israel Hospital for heart and kidney trouble in 1968. Doctors advised him not to play but Armstrong continued to practice every day in his Corona, Queens home, where he had lived with his fourth wife, Luci...
22. Dez. 2014 · Karst tells the story of documents from the Colored Waifs Home that ended up in the hands of one Allen Kimble. The documents including information about a previously unknown Armstrong arrest in 1910. That alone was enough of a jaw-dropper but Karst dug deeper and found TWO more mentions of Armstrong in New Orleans newspapers of 1910 ...
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Sie hatte eine Spende für das Millony Boys Home gegeben, ein Nachfolger des Coloured Waifs Home, in dem Louis Armstrong als Zwölfjähriger das Kornettspiel lernte.
23. Mai 2024 · As a child, he worked odd jobs and sang in a boys’ quartet. In 1913 he was sent to the Colored Waifs Home as a juvenile delinquent. There he learned to play the cornet in a band, and playing music quickly became a passion.
