bonaventures: RIP LOUIS ARMSTRONG | August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971 “Louis is not dead, for his music is and will remain in the hearts and minds of countless millions of the world’s peoples, and in the playing of hundreds of thousands of musicians who have come under his influence.”Dizzy Gillespie, July 17, 1971 | Louis Armstrong photographed by Phil Stern, 1957

bonaventures:

RIP LOUIS ARMSTRONG | August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971

“Louis is not dead, for his music is and will remain in the hearts and minds of countless millions of the world’s peoples, and in the playing of hundreds of thousands of musicians who have come under his influence.”

Dizzy Gillespie, July 17, 1971 | Louis Armstrong photographed by Phil Stern, 1957

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