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Yesterday, producer Tommy LiPuma sent along a link to a documentary from the BBC featuring interviews with jazz legends Louis Armstrong, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie,Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald. The display is a bit pinched on the sides, but the joy and the music come through just the same. Here's the documentary...

 

       

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