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Louis Armstrong
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Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful?
— Spoken intro to "What a Wonderful World" (1970 version)
Louis Armstrong
American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer (1901–1971)
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Lived 1901–1971, aged 70United States
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He turned jazz from a group conversation into a solo art — the trumpet player whose gravelly voice on "What a Wonderful World" became as recognizable as his horn, and whose grin opened doors that were supposed to stay closed.
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Born in New Orleans on August 4, 1901, Armstrong followed his mentor Joe "King" Oliver to Chicago around 1922, joining Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and making his name at cutting contests before Fletcher Henderson brought him to New York. By the 1920s his inventive trumpet work had shifted jazz's center of gravity from collective improvisation to solo performance, and by the 1950s he was everywhere — radio, television, film — a joyful presence who rarely spoke publicly about race but took a stand during the Little Rock Crisis. He recorded with Ella Fitzgerald, appeared in films from Cabin in the…
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Louis Armstrong
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The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.
— As quoted in The New York Times (19 September 1967)]
Louis Armstrong
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Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner.
— Ebony magazine, November 1964
Louis Armstrong
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The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws.
— Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (1954)
Louis Armstrong
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If you still have to ask, shame on you
— Armstrong's response to the question what jazz is, cited by Max Jones et. al.: "Salute to Satchmo", I.P.C. Specialist & Professional Press
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