Amazing Performers: B1

There was a music teacher at the Colored Waifs’ Home called Professor Davis. Most of the other boys weren’t interested in music and behaved badly in his lessons, but I wanted to learn. The Home had a band, and the band had a cornet, which I loved. I practised the cornet every day, improving all the time until, when I was only 13, Professor Davis asked me to be the leader of the band. It was the proudest day of my life.

When I left the Colored Waifs’ Home I had nowhere to go and I was soon back on the streets again. I was 18, and I could have got into a lot of trouble. Life was kind to me, however. New Orleans was famous for its brass band parades. Brass bands walked through the streets of the town, playing popular songs. I soon found a job playing in these bands.

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