Tag: Louis Armstrong
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Dreams along Clarinet Road
The night we asked Evan and Nina over to ask them to be Tin’s godparents, Evan brought Tin a clarinet he had purchased for the mouthpiece. He had intended to make a lamp out of the body of the instrument but then when he saw it there in his house he knew that Tin would just love to have this real instrument, so he gave it to him. Evan didn’t know that night we were…
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Happy Birthday Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 in Back of Town, New Orleans – a poor neighborhood and his father abandoned the family when he was an infant. Then his mother left him to live with his grandmother and uncle. Later he moved back with his mother, a prostitute, and relatives and saw his father only in parades. He had a rough beginning and was taken in by a Jewish family, the Karnofskys, who had…
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Who is Tin channeling?
For a period of time if you asked Tin his name he would reply with conviction, “Louis Armstrong.” But now I’m starting to wonder just who or how many now gone musicians this little boy is channeling. QED (quod erat demonstrandum) this is Jewel Brown singing with Louis Armstrong, When the Saints Go Marchin In. She is fabulous by the way and we watch this video over and over again as Tin wakes up asking…