Profile: Louis Armstrong's extraordinary life and influence on American jazz music

From: Talk of the Nation (NPR) | Date: July 4, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

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Profile: Louis Armstrong's extraordinary life and influence on American jazz music

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Here's the thing about Louis Armstrong. He's so old that he's now new. Few people are still alive who remember the young and daring Louis Armstrong as the leading figure in the birth of jazz in the 1920s. And the World War II generation that knew ...

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