Lewis Lowe's Story

At age seven, Louis went to work for the karnovskis, a jewish family from lithuania who ran a junk yard. Knowing how much lowis loved to play, they lent him money to buy his first real cornet. When he was 12, louis took out his stepfather's gun on new year's eve and shot it into the air. He was sentenced to spend two years in the waif's home for boys. But at the school, there was one good thing, there was music. Lewis also continued to sing in addition to playing the horn. In 19 22, oliver asked louis to join his band, the creole jaz band