Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Louis Armstrong's death last week, two days after his 71st birthday, came as a tragic surprise. In March he had been so ill that it seemed unlikely he would recover. But he did, only recently announcing his return to work (TIME, July 12). His sudden death from heart failure ended a career that spanned the life of jazz. He emerged during its early days, became the first big star to shine in front of a combo. He paved the road over which virtually every jazzman of any importance would walk to fame thereafter...
...months ago Jazz King Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong was gravely ill in a Manhattan hospital, fighting an apparently losing battle for his life. Now the gravel-throated singer and trumpeter has told newsmen: "My playing and singing's O.K. and I feel pretty good." To prove it, he took up his trumpet, blasted into What a Wonderful World, and announced he planned to go back to work. Said Satchmo: "That's what life's all about...
...held and had given the order to "do away with him." The whole prosecution effort was bent on proving that even if Seale had not actually given the order to have Rackley killed, he, as well as Mrs. Huggins, had at least known about it. It failed. Juror Mary Armstrong afterward described the state's case as "very weak, extremely weak...
...Neil A. Armstrong, LL.D., astronaut. Commander of Apollo 11 on the moon mission, perhaps the greatest trip in history...
Indeed, there are some who worry whether jazz can (or should) be taught at all. "If you have to ask what jazz is," Louis Armstrong once observed, "you ain't got it." His view is both right on and slightly wrongheaded. Schooling alone can no more produce a creative jazz player than a novelist, poet or even an All-America fullback. Yet the nurturing of naturally gifted kids is a proud and longstanding challenge to the American academic scene. Any young jazz player can certainly stand some formal polishing of his delayed triplets, skimmed notes, quarter-tone vibratos...