I've blown taps for the Caesars and the Napoleons.

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6 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 00:00:45 in the radio play.

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- And the bride went off like one that's been stunned and in the neon jungle she felt forlorn. But a most hep and a wiser Babe she rose the morrow morn!

(Louis Armstrong trumpet solo)

- That trumpet? That's me he's blowing. I'm Trumpet. Look at me: curved brass cylinder with a cup-shaped mouth. Three valves and a thousand tones.

- But the angel Gabriel touched his lips to my mouth and called home the quick and the dead.

- The Romans blew me when the earth was their empire.

- I've blown taps for the Caesars and the Napoleons.

- My voice has been heard in high and low places.

- But... until the kid blew me, I never knew what scales I could climb.

- He gave me tones I never knew were my own. He gave me a voice that was free and strong, so that his own could be free and strong.

- Destination freedom.

- Out of the struggles of the Negro people against slavery and ghetto life has come the phenomenon of jazz, a truly American music and one of the world's most potent art forms.

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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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