5 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 00:03:14 in the radio play.
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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...
- 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.
- All right, let's get with it. This is where you come in...
- Blow, man, blow, blow! What you waitin' on?
- I thought I heard 'him' out there.
- You mean that 'kid'?
- Yeah.
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