Word: satchmoed
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...jazz musicians jammed and jawboned yesterday in Agassiz Theater, showing Satchmo wannabees how to swing...
...late Louis Armstrong, who since her husband's death had continued as a globetrotting good-will ambassador for American jazz; of cardiac arrest; while visiting Boston. The couple met when Lucille was a dancer at Harlem's Cotton Club and were married for 31 years, until Satchmo's death...
Years later, in the record New Orleans Function, Armstrong recalled the traditional funeral by using Flee as a Bird as the processional dirge, Didn't He Ramble as a sample of swinging postburial music and an affectionate spoof of graveside eulogy. Says the Rev. Satchmo: "Ashes to ashes/ Dust to dust/ It's too bad old Gate/ Couldn't have stayed on earth with us." Armstrong never referred to a jazz funeral. Those who have nurtured the tradition speak simply of a funeral "with a band of music." Given New Orleans' love for parades, the outcome...
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...