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On July 6, 1971 Louis Armstrong passed away at his home in Queens, NY. Two days later, more than 30,000 came to pay their respects to the beloved jazz legend. Louis Armstrong was buried in Flushing Cemetery in Queens, just a few miles away from his home in Corona.
Years later, Armstrong paid tribute to his elder, noting, as quoted in the liner notes to King Oliver Papa Joe (1926-1928), that if it had not been for Joe Oliver, jazz would not be what it is today. Joseph King Oliver was born around New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 11, 1885. Over the next several years, his family moved a number of times, primarily throughout New Orleans's Garden District, a section filled with large antebellum homes and high-walled courtyards.