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Louis at home, c. 1970.
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1970
The Newport Jazz Festival presents a tribute to Louis Armstrong featuring Mahalia Jackson, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby Hackett, and the Eureka Brass Band. Appears on many television shows, including: The Dick Cavett Show, The David Frost Show, The Tonight Show, and The Flip Wilson Show.
1971
Appears on many television shows, including The David Frost Show, The Dick Cavett Show, The Tonight Show, and a television special with Pearl Bailey. Records the poem "The Night Before Christmas" in the den of his Corona home. (It becomes his last commercial recording.) Performs for two weeks in the Empire Room of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City.
6 July 1971
Passes away in his sleep at his home in Corona.
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