How Louis Armstrong Became The First Black Pop Star

2141.344 - 2162.465 Ricky Riccardi

And eventually it all builds to this climax where he is wailing in the upper register. High notes, opera, Enrico Caruso, everything he learned from buying opera records as a teenager, it's all coming out of his trumpet. And I make the point that this three-chorus solo, the way it builds and builds and builds, it starts off so slow and quiet, and by the end, it's like this roof-shaking climax.