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The original Milne Boys Home, formerly known as the Colored Waifs’ Home, and a new campus for troubled and needy boys was constructed at 5420 Franklin Avenue. Designed by Diboll & Owens, LTD., the Classical style buildings were constructed under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) from 1933 to 1937. Split into two precisely-mirrored halves, the facility epitomized the “separate but ...
school for boys,the Colored Waifs Home. There he was taught to play the cornet by the school’s band director,Peter Davis. He joined the marching band and led his schoolmates in parades.He left the Waifs Home after a year and worked on junk wagons selling coal for a Jewish family,the Karnofskys. The family treated him kindly, and he developed ...
The institution in which Louis Armstrong first led a band as a boy was the Colored Waif's Home for Boys. Here, Armstrong discovered his music talent, learning to play the cornet, which was a precursor to the trumpet. The skills he developed at the Home for Colored Waifs propelled him on a path to becoming one of the central figures in the development of jazz.
31. Aug. 2010 · Then there was the matter of Professor Davis at the Colored Waif’s Home. In a sly bit of casting, he’s played by Mr. Marsalis’s younger brother Delfeayo Marsalis, whose sudden appearance on ...
He formed a quartet and busked with other local boys. By the time he was in his teens, Louis was bringing in the largest proportion of the family income. It is unclear how Louis came to the attention of authorities, but in 1912 he was consigned to Joseph Jones’ Colored Waifs’ Home for around twelve months. At first, he was miserable, but ...
31. Jan. 2013 · And it was outside its doors, on New Year’s Eve in 1912, that Armstrong celebrated by firing a pistol into the air—an event that led to his arrest and confinement in the Colored Waif’s Home ...
After being arrested in 1912 for firing a pistol on New Year’s Eve, he was sent to the Home for Colored Waifs, where he began playing the cornet and had his first musical training. During his later teen years, Armstrong began playing with trombonist Kid Ory’s Jazz Band, and in 1922 moved to Chicago where he joined the band of King Oliver, with whom he played second cornet. In 1924 he ...
