Louis Armstrong
Trumpet Solo on
Autumn In New York

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Louis Armstrong's trumpet solo is the sole improvisation on this recording. Spanning half a chorus of the 32-bar ABA'C form at a ballad tempo of 69 BPM in E♭, the solo runs approximately 58 seconds. Performed in E-flat major with a 32-bar ABA'C form at a slow 69 BPM, Armstrong's solo brings his unmistakable warmth and melodic genius to one of the most atmospheric songs in the American popular canon. Louis Armstrong was 55 to 56 years old at the time of this 1957 recording. "Autumn in New York" was composed by Vernon Duke, the pen name of Russian-born Vladimir Dukelsky, in the summer of 1934 while he was vacationing in Westport, Connecticut.

Louis Armstrong was 55 to 56 years old at the time.