
Louis Armstrong discusses music
Studs Terkel Archive Podcast
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The Changes That Taken Place in Music
When you went to Fletcher Henderson in a bigger band. Well we used outright mutes. They had to read music then. So what did you do then? I didn't know what tried to do with Joe. Could nobody do with me. And I went, well what was the change? It was a change that took place and you have to adjust when you go there. Here we are sitting in the Chicago nightclub in 1962. Naturally you remember now and then goes back to that period when you first came here. In 1920? How was Chicago then to you? "In the same Chicago but there were different things happening"
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