Young Louis Armstrong yearns to play the singing, blasting, scorching music

Author: Roxane Orgill
Illustrator: Leonard Jenkins
Format: Paperback
Published: Houghton Mifflin, 1997

Young Louis Armstrong yearns to play the singing, blasting, scorching music he hears all around him. Sent to the Colored Waif?s Home, he learns to play a dirty old bugle and eventually a beat-up coronet. The legend of young Louis Armstrong is remarkable illustrated with a mixture of acrylic, pastel, and spray paint that creates a painted collage effect in muted greens, browns, and yellows.