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Miles Davis & Louis Armstrong: You Learn How to Defend Your Style

Al Aronowitz, Rolling Stone, 9 July 1970

NEW YORK — There was something sad about it, this party thrown by old men for someone older still, and yet you had to have the same respect for them as you do for sea captains who choose to go down with their ships.

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