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The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings
Search: Two Deuces
by: Louis Armstrong
Release Date August 22, 2006
In college, I took a course in the philosophy of the "Modern." Our first assignment was to define "modern," and I borrowed a friend's tape recorder and copied "Potato Head Blues" from my Columbia LP. To the spool I attached a note that said "Listen to the improvised solo, and then listen again." My professor --a sculptor as well as an academic-- returned the spool with his own note that said I kept him from doing any work for two hours, because all he could do was play it over and over again. In fact, that is precisely what happened to me when I heard that unbelievable track for the first time.
This is the seminal music of the most important musician of the Twentieth Century. He is joined by colleagues who on their own were ... Read More:
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