Word: satchmo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Better to sound like Satchmo...
Since breathing is easy, the new voice can be sustained about as long as normal speech. It has a raspy quality faintly reminiscent of Louis Armstrong, but is notably superior to other voice-restoration techniques. Besides, most people probably would prefer a voice like Satchmo's to embarrassed silence...
...Louis Armstrong Orgy, featuring Satchmo's work in the '20s, will be broadcast Monday, also beginning at 6 a.m. (I still hold that people who regularily get up at six are for the most part dangerous and will probably not listen to either Taylor or Armstrong...
...jazz musician who is worth a toot knows what July 4 means. July 4 is the birthday of one of America's great founding fathers: Louis Armstrong. The life of the incomparable Satchmo spanned virtually the entire development of jazz, but that uniquely American music did not disappear with Armstrong's passing at age 71 five years ago. Indeed what is remarkable about jazz is that its original face has never been lost. The music is no older than the century, and many of its fathers are still alive and playing. Painting and classical music progress sequentially, discarding earlier styles...
...history of jazz," Miles Davis maintains, "can be told in four words: Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker." Satchmo died at 71 on July 6, 1971, his name a household word; but 18 years have passed since Charlie ("Bird") Parker died, broke and burned out at 34. Except to jazz buffs, his name is barely remembered. No longer do such graffiti as "Bird lives!" appear on subway walls. Yet sooner or later Parker's genius confronts anyone who listens to jazz seriously...