Introduction

lewis armstrong didn't start out with many advantages in life. His family was extremely poor, and their neighborhood was so dangerous it was nicknamed the battlefield. As a child, he organized a quart with his friends and saing on street corners for coins. He would often hear music coming from the clubs and dance halls of new orleans. The story goes that when passers by tossed coins on the sidewalk, louis would snatch them up and put them in his cheeks to stop older boys stealing them.