Description
How did famous New Orleans jazz trumpet player Louis Armstrong get his first horn?
Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong was too poor to buy a real instrument. He didn't even go to school. To help his mother pay the rent, every day he rode a junk wagon through the streets of New Orleans, playing a tin horn and collecting stuff people didn't want. Then one day, the junk wagon passed a pawn shop with a gleaming brass trumpet in the window. . . .
Details
Copyright: |
2006 |
Binding Type: |
Paperback |
Language: |
English |
Author: |
Eric A. Kimmel |
Publisher: |
Random House Children's Books |
Number of Pages: |
96 |