Today is Louis Armstrong’s birthday, in my view a musical titan to match the likes of Wagner. No artist has given me such pleasure as Pops as well as being a perennial symbol or a paragon of dignity in trying circumstances. Below are two of my favourite photos of Pops. I also highly recommend you read two books, the latter author works tirelessly and brilliantly as a keeper of the Pops flame @ The Louis Armstrong House Museum. The world is forever indebted to the Karnofskys.
Terry Teachout’s Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Ricky Riccardi’s What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years
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