Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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🎺✨ Celebrating International Jazz Day with Houston legend Milt Larkin.
In this 1989 Eyes of Texas profile, he remembers saving “a quarter here and 50 cents there” to make a $10 down payment on his first trumpet — the beginning of a career that helped shape American jazz.

Footage provided in partnership with the Texas Film Commission and the Summerlee Foundation. Watch the full segment at TexasArchive.org!

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