A young troublemaker at the Colored Waif’s Home encounters one horn and two music educators. The world changes.

Louis Armstrong, born in New Orleans in 1901, noted how the music brought cheer to a solemn occasion: "After the brother was six feet under the ground, the band would strike up one of those good ...

Though she might be identified in the jazz world as the wife of Louis Armstrong, she was much more than that ... who established a reputation as “Hot Miss Lil," one of the few female band ensemble ...