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Louis Armstrong's rare last trumpet recording released to the public

One of the legendary jazz musician's last recorded concerts at the National Press Club is now available to the public.

A picture taken in 1970 shows American Louis Armstrong (R), the jazz trumpeter whose melodic inventiveness established the central role of the improvising soloist in jazz, playing with French trumpeter Claude Luter.

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