Rare Books Satchmo My Life in New Orleans by Louis Armstrong Third Printing 1955 Prentice Hall hardcover Music Biography Books Music History
$56.25 $75.00
This is a very good hardcover, NO dust jacket, jacket missing. Third Printing Prentice Hall Publishing 1955. This copy is very good inside and out. The pages are very clean with no foxing. The binding is tight and straight. Red illustrated endpapers front and back featuring New Orleans marching jazz band. Tan hardcover boards with black quarter trim are also very good with only very light shelf wear. Crown octavo book size or 5.5" x 8" with 240 pages.
Satchmo My Life in New Orleans by Louis Armstrong is a journey through jazz music with the incomparable Louis Armstrong. It is a memoir of the first 20 years in New Orleans and concludes when he leaves for Chicago. It is a rich tale filled with characters and idols. Being born in one of the toughest neighborhoods in New Orleans, Armstrong tells of growing up and playing music at a Home for Boys. He played and listened to musicians at Lulu White's Mahogany House on North Basin Street. He hung at jazz joints and finally left to join his idol and mentor, King Joe Oliver, to Chicago.
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