Louis and Dizzy

Here they perform "Umbrella Man" on the Timex All Star Show - The Golden Age of Jazz recorded January 7, 1959.



Although Gillespie had criticized Armstrong as "the plantation character that so many of us resent" in a Down Beat article published in 1949, he later lived near the Armstrongs and apparently visited them frequently at their home in Corona. In his autobiography, Gillespie wrote:

I began to recognize that that what I had considered Pops's grinning in the face of racism was his absolute refusal to let anything, even anger about racism, steal the joy from his life and erase his fantastic smile.

Gillespie was an honorary pallbearer at Armstrong's funeral.