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Arts > Music > Jazz > 20th century > USA > Louis Armstrong 1901[?] -1971
Trumpeter Louis Armstrong belting out his famous rendition of the song "Hello Dolly" in a nightclub.
Location: New York, NY, US Date taken: June 7, 1965
Photographer: John Loengard
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Musician Louis Armstrong (L) in his neighborhood barber shop.
Location: Queens, NY, US Date taken: 1965
Photographer: John Loengard
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Louis Armstrong 1901 [?] -1971
jazz trumpeter and singer
Jazz music, probably the only art form ever wholly originated in America, and Louis Armstrong grew up together in New Orleans.
It was in a seamy slum there that Mr. Armstrong learned to love and play jazz in the company of gamblers, pimps and prostitutes.
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Mr. Armstrong's early years spent in New Orleans, were marked by extreme poverty and squalor, but he emerged able to recall them without self-pity and even with good humor.
"I was a Southern Doodle Dandy born on the Fourth of July, 1900," said Daniel Louis Armstrong.
"My mother Mary Ann --we called her Mayann-- was living in a two-room shack in James Alley, in the Back O' Town colored section of New Orleans.
It was in a tough block, all them hustlers and their pimps and gamblers with their knives, between Gravier and Perdido Streets." http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0804.html
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