Satchmo
by lz in Stranded on 12Oct2004
Some good info on how Louie got started in on the trumpet-- basically he was in reform school at the time b/c of firing a gun off during a New Years celebration. I had to give up once I found out I wasn't visiting New Orleans after all. Maybe if...
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Book 1: Francie, the 11 year old girl, on life in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, before it got hip. Life in poverty, wrangling a week's worth of food from stale bread and bones with meat clinging to it. A drunk father whose on-again off-again job as a singer/waiter didn't do much to...
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