If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong

Roxane Orgill's vivid words and Leonard Jenkins's dramatic pictures combine to tell the story of a boy who grew up to be a giant of jazz-the legendary and beloved Louis Armstrong. As a poor boy in New Orleans, where music was everywhere-dancing out of doorways, singing on street corners, crying from the cornet of the great Joe Oliver for all to hear-Louis longed for a horn so that he too could sing, bring home pennies, and, most of all, tap happy-feet blues till the sun rose. It wasn't goin...