It was from the narrow streets of once fabulous New Orleans, where jazz was born.

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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 00:01:48 in the radio play.

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- 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.

- 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...

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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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