a wonderful world

"I see trees of green...red roses too, I see'em bloom...for me and for you, and I think to myself...what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue...clouds of white, bright blessed days...dark sacred nights, and I think to myself...what a wonderful world. The colors of a rainbow...so pretty...in the sky, are also on the faces...of people...going by, I see friends shaking hands...sayin' how do you do, they're really sayin'...I love you. I hear babies cry...I watch them grow, they'll learn much more...than I'll ever know, and I think to myself...what a wonderful world." words by the great Louie Armstrong.

Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo, has made New Orleans proud! He grew up very poor, drawing inspiration from bad times, he has said,"Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine-I looked in the heart of good old New Orleans...It has given me something to live for." Born in New Orleans in 1901, he learned to love life with struggles and hardships. Working for a Jewish immigrant family, he was taught how to live with extreme determination. The Karnofsky's gave him odd jobs and he was treated as family. Louie Armstrong later wrote a memoir of his life with them titled, "Louis Armstrong+The Jewish Family." Mr. Karnofsky gave Louie Armstrong his first cornet...the rest is history!

The Karnofsky Project in New Orleans is still helping other Louie want-a-be's, by giving hope to children who desire to play, but can not afford a musical instrument. For it's really... a wonderful world!

"What we play is life." Louis Armstrong

"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them." Louis Armstrong