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Louis Armstrong Is Quite Simply The Most Important Person In American Music. He Is To 20th Century Music (i Did Not Say Jazz) What Einstein Is To Physics.

I Grew Up Certain For A While That I Was Going To Be An Anthropologist, Until Film Turned My Head.

Nothing In Our Daily Life Offers More Of The Comfort Of Continuity, The Generational Connection Of Belonging To A Vast And Complicated American Family, The Powerful Sense Of Home, The Freedom From Time's Constraints, And The Great Gift Of Accumulated Memory Than Does Our National Pastime.

The Only Art Form That Americans Have Created That's Recognized Around The World Is Jazz Music Born In A Community That Had The Peculiar Experience Of Being Unfree In A Free Land.

There Are No Ordinary Lives.