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Essay heading: Louis Armstrong- An Extravagant Life
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To them it was almost a bad thing if you did know how to read, and the ones who did, would pretend they could not. Music was to come from the soul, and be improvised. Reading a sheet of music while playing would only take away from that and you could not perform as well. Eventually though, even Armstrong himself would have to learn if he wanted to earn a decent living, and make something of himself...
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Eventually though, even Armstrong himself would have to learn if he wanted to earn a decent living, and make something of himself.
In 1919, Louis was able to begin to make that happen. While out promoting that night's concert with his current band, another band doing the same crossed their path. The two bands began a musical war trying to outdo one another...
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