In the early 1970s, when I was first really getting into jazz, I heard one of those glib statements that stuck with me: "The history of the jazz trumpet can be written in four words: Louis Armstrong Miles Davis." Now this obviously is not true as there have been dozens of great jazz trumpeters, but in a way it distilled the history of something down to two iconic figures.
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