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Portrait of Louis Armstrong 1901-71 #1116659

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Portrait of Louis Armstrong 1901-71   #1116659
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Portrait of Louis Armstrong 1901-1971 by Juliet Pannett </em></td>
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Armstrong was born August 4, 1901 to a poor family in New Orleans, Louisiana. His youth was spent in poverty in a rough neighborhood of uptown New Orleans, as his father, William Armstrong (1881??), abandoned the family when Louis was an infant. His mother, Mary Albert Armstrong (1886?1942) then left him and his younger sister Beatrice Armstrong Collins (1903?1987) under the upbringing of his grandmother Josephine Armstrong. He first learned to play the cornet (his first of which was bought with money loaned to him by the Karnofskys, a Russian-Jewish immigrant family) in the band of the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs, where he had been sent multiple times for general delinquency, most notably for a long term after (as police records show) firing his father's pistol into the air at a New Year's Eve celebration. He followed the city's frequent brass band parades and listened to older musicians every chance he got, learning from Bunk Johnson, Buddy Petit, and above all Joe "King" Oliver, who acted as a mentor and almost a father figure to the young Armstrong. Armstrong later played in the brass bands and riverboats of New Orleans, and first started traveling with the well-regarded band of Fate Marable which toured on a steamboat up and down the Mississippi River; he described his time with Marable as "going to the University" since it gave him a much wider experience working with written arrangements. When Joe Oliver left town in 1919, Armstrong took Oliver's place in ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:20th Century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Juliet Pannett</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:18</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:12</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Portrait of Louis Armstrong 1901-71 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Drawing</td></tr>

<tr><td>Type:Charcoal</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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