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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong
Age: 69 †
Born: 1901
Born: August 4
Died: 1971
Died: July 6
Actor
Bandleader
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Film Actor
Film Score Composer
Jazz Musician
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Satchmo
Pops
Louis Daniel Armstrong
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Give me a kiss to build a dream on And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss Sweetheart, I ask no more than this A kiss to build a dream on.
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Red beans and ricely yours.
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