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19 de abr. de 2024 · by Matt Micucci. 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.
The Colored Waifs Home evolved into the Milne Boys Home in Gentilly, which employed Arthur Neville, Sr., father of the Neville Brothers, as a counselor. In 2017 the facility morphed into the NORD Milne NOLA FOR LIFE Center, a multi-purpose center including programming aimed at reducing gun violence among young people.
Music at the Abijah Fisk School helped open the ears of two of the most influential figures in traditional jazz, Charles “Buddy” Bolden and Louis Armstrong. Though Bolden isn’t a household name, his cornet playing earned him posthumous recognition as the progenitor of jazz. He probably began kindergarten at Fisk in 1883 or 1884, when …
July 6, 1971 (aged 69) New York City, U.S. Burial place. Flushing Cemetery. Other names. Satchmo. Pops. Louie. Education. Colored Waif's Home for Boys, Fisk School for Boys. Occupations. Musician. singer.
On October 31, 1965, Louis “Pops” (or “Satchmo”) Armstrong gave his first performance in New Orleans, his home town, in nine years. As a boy, he had busked on street corners. At twelve, he marched in parades for the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys, where he was given his first cornet. But he had publicly boycotted the city since its ...
21 de ene. de 2018 · Then one child at the home named Jonas asked that the group play "colored folks' songs, not white folks' songs." The four boys immediately launched into "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," the paper wrote.
27 de jul. de 2019 · July 27, 2019. Features. The music teaching career of Peter Davis began when he was hired as the warden at the Colored Waif’s Boys Home in New Orleans and later became the Director of Music there. The facility was used to house African American boys who had been incarcerated by court order.
