The house-Museum of Louis Armstrong is not like the home of international celebrity – a small and modest, he does not stand out on the streets of Queens. The great jazz trumpeter and singer has lived here for almost three decades. Everything here looks exactly the same as during the life of the musician.

The grandson of a slave, Armstrong was born in New Orleans, he spent his childhood in poverty (his father abandoned the family, the mother did prostitution). In eleven years he sang in street boys Quartet. Thirteen – played the cornet in the ballroom. At twenty he began a solo on the trumpet, and soon was playing in a jazz band in Chicago. Already a successful jazz musician he has performed in new York, Los Angeles and Chicago. In 1943 he settled with his fourth wife Lucille in Queens, on a quiet tree-lined street in the red brick house.

One of the greatest jazz musicians in the world, Armstrong could afford rich dwelling anywhere but settled here, near the Crown, where it has long been settled immigrants. However, so did the famous jazz musicians Ella Fitzgerald, dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Shavers, Norman Marr. Streets Crown does not look like Manhattan: the houses here are small, joining them tiny gardens – village by village. However, Armstrong loved this place to go anywhere and wasn't going to.

Outside, the house looks more than modest, but inside the musician had arranged as required soul. Glossy blue kitchen equipped with various appliances: huge stove, custom-made built right into the countertop kitchen processor (these were already in the sixties of the XX century). A native of the South, Armstrong loved traditional southern dishes such as red beans with rice. When he still nursed a northerner Lucille, just in case asked if she knew how to cook this dish – she said she will learn (and at the first meeting with Louis parents Lucille actually went red beans with rice). Museum without reserve talks about some of the features of the master of the house: in Armstrong's day did not pass without a laxative Swiss company Kriss, and he, without embarrassment advise it to everyone. One day – even members of the British Royal family.

Passing through the house, tourists can hear Armstrong's practicing on his trumpet, risky jokes with Lucille sings. The Museum's collection of hundreds of tape reels of Studio and home recordings of a musician, thousands of photos, documents and letters. In this number of documents is not surprising: Armstrong adored correspondence, every spare moment was spent on letters to his wife and friends.

Here – five pipes, of which the musician has learned magic sounds, fourteen mouthpieces to them, more than a hundred different awards. Near the house is a small garden, which celebrated its seventy-first birthday Armstrong. It was his last birthday.