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

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.

[...]

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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