Word: satchmo
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...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...
...After Satchmo. Success there led to an offer to appear on the Dick Cavett Show. That fell through. Enrico's current engagement at Manhattan's Inner Circle came next, as well as a number of tapings for television appearances before the family heads back to England -and school...
Enrico hopes one day to have a band of his own, but for a while intends to go on styling himself after Satchmo. Right now, his father says, he can play high C's easily. As to just how high a note a trumpeter can hope to reach, Enrico is upbeat. "You just keep going," he says. At his age, he has a long time...