10 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 00:02:35 in the radio play.
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- It was from the narrow streets of once fabulous New Orleans, where jazz was born.
- And growing up beside it there came a jazz giant whose career set the pattern for the development of the new music.
- 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.
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