But across the tracks, across the levees and the work camps, in the wine rooms on Rampart and Basin Streets...

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9 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 00:02:50 in the radio play.

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- In a chapter entitled 'The Trumpet Talks', Destination Freedom dramatizes the early life of the king of the trumpeters: Louis Armstrong.

(Louis Armstrong trumpet solo) (2)

- Yes, I'm the trumpet. Brass cylinder and three valves. My tone was militant.

- In the orchestra pits in New Orleans 'round 1900 they fondled me with rondos, and runs blew sweet sonatas through my valves...

- Blared a bit for Wagner and Beethoven, but left my tones intact as they'd been blown for a hundred years.

- But across the tracks, across the levees and the work camps, in the wine rooms on Rampart and Basin Streets...

- 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.

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The kid left her and went back to me, the trumpet, and blew until his cheeks ached and his lips cracked and split, but he kept on.

You're the one who can make the trumpet talk... and tell the truth.

I believe that once one accepts discrimination against another, he's preparing the way for his own slavery. I intend to remain free.

Listen. They say when a new music's bein' born, you get one kid like this who comes along years ahead of himself. This kid plays tomorrow's music today.

Some of these kids... are just like me. They hear the sound of a trumpet - they never forget it.

Destination Freedom Sound Clip

Quotes 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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