Zutty Singleton
from Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It, pages 170-171:
When Lous [Armstrong] was fixin' to make his next trip to New York (the first one on his own), Lil Armstrong loaned everybody in the band twenty dollars and off we went--without a job set or anything. I'll never forget that trip across the country in Louis' Hupmobile… And every big town we'd come to, we'd hear Louis' records being played on loudspeakers and stuff. Louis was surprised--he didn't know he was so popular. If we'd known that, we could have had an agent line us up one-nighters all the way to New York.
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Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro, Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It (London, 1992), p. 170-171. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1436030502434 accessed: 8 November, 2024
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jazz trumpet music
written by Dizzy Gillespie |
performed by Louis Armstrong |
Experience Information
Medium | playback |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public |
Notes
The music was heard on a car journey from Chicago to New York
Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Sat, 04 Jul 2015 18:21:42 +0100
Approved on Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:51:45 +0100