- Louis Armstrong: I was at a little Italian trumpet player's house, and his mother was a Countess, well they was makin' that spaghetti and we was wailin', you know. In this big ol' dinin' room they had this table and up in the ceilin' they had Mark Anthony and Cleo and all the cats that they painted. Lookin' down on you as if to say, "Man, you shore can eat!"
- [laughs]
- Louis Armstrong: Well, we have a lot of fun travelin', man.
- Mahalia Jackson: All right, you make me feel like I'm a star.
- [singing]
- Mahalia Jackson: Our Father, Which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name, They Kingdom come, They will be done, On Earth as it is in Heaven, Give us this day...
- Interviewer: Where are you from please?
- East Jesus Jazz Fan: I'm from East Jesus.
- Interviewer: Why'd you come here?
- East Jesus Jazz Fan: I came here - I just came here for the fun of it.
- Interviewer: Are you a jazz fan?
- East Jesus Jazz Fan: Yeah, actually.
- Interviewer: Do you have any particular favorite?
- East Jesus Jazz Fan: Yeah! Gerry Mulligan. He's my favorite? How about you?
- Female companion of East Jesus Jazz Fan: I don't have any favorites.
- East Jesus Jazz Fan: You don't have any favorites at all? What do you have?
- Female companion of East Jesus Jazz Fan: [laughs] I don't really like jazz.
- East Jesus Jazz Fan: You don't? What'd you come here for?
- Female companion of East Jesus Jazz Fan: I came for the ride.
- Anita O'Day: [singing] They all sigh and wanna die for Sweet Georgia Brown, I'll tell you just why, you know I don't lie - not much!...
- Chuck Berry: [singing] Sweet Little Sixteen, She's got the grown up blues, Tight dress and lipstick, She's sportin' high heal shoes...
- Festival Emcee: Henry Grimes and Roy Haynes remain on stage to accompany one of the complete originals of music. A man who lives his music, a man who thinks his music, and, is possible to say, he lives and thinks of little else. We can't describe him exactly as 'daring'; because, I think he is unconcerned with any opposition to his music. He concerns himself with such elements as the quarter tone which he doesn't find in our Western scales. So, he'll strike two adjoining notes on the piano, two adjoining keys, to imply the missing note that's in-between. Ladies and Gentlemen, Thelonious Monk.
- [Monk starts to play Blue Monk]
- Louis Armstrong: I saw the Pope too, you know. And he's a fine little fella, you know. He was tickled to death to know that the Italian people enjoyed our music and he could speak on any subject, in all kind of languages, you know. So, he - he's alright man, he asked me, "You got any children?", you know. I said, well, "No, Daddy, but we still wailin'." He say - He said, "But, I'm going to pray for you. I'm going to pray for you."
- [laughs]