"A Night with Louis" -- One Book, One New Orleans 2010 Kickoff

Come to celebrate the kickoff for the Sixth Annual One Book One New Orleans campaign for literacy and community. "A Night with Louis", will be held at the McKenna Museum of African American Art, 2003 Carondelet St., 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Many spectacular New Orleans eateries will be showcased, including:

• Jacques-Imo’s
• Muriel’s
• Dooky Chase
• Mother’s
• Leidenheimer Breads
• Angelo Brocato’s
• Kupcake Factory

The book selection for this year is Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, the 1954 Louis Armstrong memoir.

During a five-week reading period beginning at this kickoff event, you and everyone in the New Orleans area are encouraged to share a common experience of reading the same book at the same time. The challenge is to get people from throughout our community -- of every background and age  -- to come together to celebrate one book and its impact on our city.

Octavia Books will have Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (and other related books) available at the kickoff for you to purchase!  We will donate a portion of sales at the event to the One Book One New Orleans program.

The New Orleans Public Library will be on-site to sign individuals up for library cards and the Literacy Alliance of Greater New Orleans will also be present. 

Please bring a copy of your favorite book to include in a session with Dear New Orleans photographer. If you like, all books may be donated to the New Orleans Public Library!

Satchmo (Paperback)

By Louis Armstrong

$16.95

ISBN-13: 9780306802768
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Da Capo Press, 4/1988

Other Editions of this Title

”In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who’d stroll up and down the floor and the bar. Those guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy, and there was lots of just plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn’t faze me at all, I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.” So says Louis Armstrong, a tough kid who just happened to be a musical genius, about one of the places where he performed and grew up. This raucous, rich tale of his early days in New Orleans concludes with his departure to Chicago at twenty-one to play with his boyhood idol King Oliver, and tells the story of a life that began, mythically, on July 4, 1900, in the city that sowed the seeds of jazz.

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