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Books with author Louise Armstrong

  • Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans

    Louis Armstrong

    Paperback (Da Capo Press, Aug. 15, 1986)
    "In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd stroll up and down the floor and the bar. Those guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy, and there was lots of just plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all, I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn." So says Louis Armstrong, a tough kid who just happened to be a musical genius, about one of the places where he performed and grew up. This raucous, rich tale of his early days in New Orleans concludes with his departure to Chicago at twenty-one to play with his boyhood idol King Oliver, and tells the story of a life that began, mythically, on July 4, 1900, in the city that sowed the seeds of jazz.
  • Swing That Music

    Louis Armstrong

    Paperback (Da Capo Press, Aug. 15, 1993)
    Not only biography, but also one of the earliest American attempts to trace the development of jazz."--from the foreword by Dan MorgensternThe first autobiography of a jazz musician, Louis Armstrong's Swing That Music is a milestone in jazz literature. Armstrong wrote most of the biographical material, which is of a different nature and scope than that of his other, later autobiography, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (also published by Da Capo). Satchmo covers in intimate detail Armstrong's life until his 1922 move to Chicago; but Swing That Music also covers his days on Chicago's South Side with "King" Oliver, his courtship and marriage to Lil Hardin, his 1929 move to New York, the formation of his own band, his European tours, and his international success. One of the most earnest justifications ever written for the new style of music then called "swing" but more broadly referred to as "Jazz," Swing That Music is a biography, a history, and an entertainment that really "swings."
  • How to Turn Lemons into Money: A Child's Guide to Economics

    Louise Armstrong

    Library Binding (Harcourt Childrens Books, Aug. 1, 1976)
    A child's lemonade stand serves as lectern and model for a quick course in economics, with explanations of all basic terms, transactions, and processes
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  • Odin's Ravens: Book 2

    K. L. Armstrong

    eBook (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, May 13, 2014)
    Seven kids, Thor's hammer and a whole lot of Valkyries are the only things standing against the end of the world . . .When thirteen-year-olds Matt Thorsen and Fen and Laurie Brekke - modern descendents of Thor and Loki - discovered they were destined to take the places of the Norse gods in an epic battle against the apocalypse, they thought they knew how things would play out. Gather the other descendents, defeat a giant serpent and save the world. No problem, right?But their journey grinds to a halt when their friend Baldwin is poisoned. Matt, Fen and Laurie must travel to the murky Underworld to try and save him before they can continue with their quest to find Thor's hammer. Ahead lie colossal monsters and legendary battles . . . Will Matt and the other descendents do enough to become heroes in their own right?Authors K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr return to Blackwell in the epic sequel to Loki's Wolves with more explosive action, adventure and larger-than-life Norse legends.
  • Satchmo. My Life in New Orleans. 1955. Cloth with dustjacket.

    Louis Armstrong

    Hardcover (Prentice-Hall, Inc., March 15, 1955)
    "In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd stroll up and down the floor and the bar. Those guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy, and there was lots of just plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all, I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn." So says Louis Armstrong, a tough kid who just happened to be a musical genius, about one of the places where he performed and grew up. This raucous, rich tale of his early days in New Orleans concludes with his departure to Chicago at twenty-one to play with his boyhood idol King Oliver, and tells the story of a life that began, mythically, on July 4, 1900, in the city that sowed the seeds of jazz. ( Amazon review)
  • The thump, blam, bump mystery

    Louise Armstrong

    Hardcover (Walker, March 15, 1975)
    When Erma Jean hears a noise overhead, she sets out with other apartment dwellers to find its source.
  • The Thump, Blam, Bump Mystery

    Louise Armstrong

    Library Binding (Walker & Co, Nov. 1, 1975)
    The children in Erma Jean's apartment building are frightened by a loud noise above their heads
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  • Satchmo

    Louis Armstrong

    Paperback (Signet., March 15, 1955)
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  • Satchmo: My life in new Orleans

    Louis Armstrong

    Paperback (New American Library, March 15, 1955)
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  • Sounder by Armstrong,William H..

    Armstrong

    Paperback (Harper CoIin, Jan. 1, 1995)
    a landmark in children's literature. Traces the sorrow of a poor black child in the old south.
  • How to Turn Lemons into Money

    Louise Armstrong, Bill Basso

    Paperback (Harcourt Australia, Jan. 9, 1977)
    Using a lemonade stand as an example, introduces some basic terminology of economics. Illustrated by Bill Basso.
  • SATCHMO

    LOUIS ARMSTRONG

    Paperback (SIGNET, March 15, 1960)
    The Original Paperback Book.