Jazz Master Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong is seldom at a loss for a word, and when he can't find one to suit him, he makes one up. Last week Satchmo was cashing in on his gift of gab by putting it onto paper. With three Armstrong articles due for publication in the U.S., he was also pecking away at an autobiography. A sample of loose-jointed Armstrong prose (and his own weird punctuation), as free & easy as his New Orleans trumpet, tells how he gave a young Italian singer a boost on his European tour last year:
"So the evening of the concert...
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