The Story of Louis Armstrong
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Louis Armstrong was the founding father of jazz and one of this century's towering cultural figures who forever changed the face of American music. Here to tell the story is Laurence Bergreen, who wrote the definitive biography on the man known as Pops: Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life.
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