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All right, let's get with it. This is where you come in...

7 seconds sound clip from the Destination Freedom - The Trumpet Talks (The early life of Louis Armstrong) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:03:34 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Husky bronze men filled my mouthpiece with wild winds and blew new notes that made the nerves of New Orleans quiver like a plucked string on a violin.

- A new rhythm that was running up and down the spines of the river towns, and I sucked it into my valves and blew out new melodies,

- The new jazz, the ragtime that rocked the taverns and barrel houses.

- And over at Diamond Stone's Cafe, a tall leggy boy they called Bunk Johnson was in the back room practicing a new beat with his drummer, Baby Dodds.

- And he gripped me in his iron fingers while the drummer tapped away... and wondered why he didn't blow.

- All right, let's get with it. This is where you come in...

- Blow, man, blow, blow! What you waitin' on?

- I thought I heard 'him' out there.

- You mean that 'kid'?

- Yeah.

- Diamond Stone says keep that 'kid' away from the cafe.

- Says a kid hanging around a cafe like him draws cops like flies to honey.

- If you wanna keep your job as trumpet man in the trio, make that 'kid' stop following you around.

[...]

Destination Freedom Sound Clip

Destination Freedom Radio ShowQuotes with audio clips from Richard Durham's Destination Freedom old-time radio program, Radio's Black Legacy, 1948-1950.

Actors: Oscar Brown Jr., Studs Terkel, Janice Kingslow, Wezlyn Tilden

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