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Louis Armstrong on His Chops
Season 1
Episode 7
"You've got to be good or as bad as the devil... Even if we had two, three days off I still had to blow that horn a few hours to keep up the chops." - Louis Armstrong Interview by Michael Aisner and James R. Stein 1964. Ravinia near Chicago
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