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Hace 3 días · 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.
22 de dic. de 2014 · Armstrong wrote in 1969, "People thought that my first horn was given to me at the Colored Waifs' Home for Boys (the orphanage). But it wasn't." People have run with that since it was first published in Gary Giddins's book "Satchmo" in 1988.
On New Year’s Eve 1912, he was arrested and sent to the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys. There, under the tutelage of Peter Davis, he learned how to properly play the cornet, eventually becoming the leader of the Waif’s Home Brass Band. Released from the Waif’s Home in 1914, Armstrong set his sights on becoming a professional musician.
Por ello, fue internado en el Colored Waifs Home for Boys, un reformatorio en las afueras de New Orleans en el que Armstrong estuvo año y medio.
18 de ago. de 2010 · Inside Colored Waifs Home (later Milne Boys Home), New Orleans. Where Louis Armstrong was locked up as a boy. 1,948 views.
31 de ene. de 2013 · His most basic instruction came while he was incarcerated for 18 months (for firing a gun into the air) at the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys.
