The Flame Is Not Out, But It

Louis Armstrong Is Quite Simply The Most Important Person In American Music. He Is To 20th Century Music (i Did Not Say Jazz) What Einstein Is To Physics.

I Subscribe To William Faulkner's' View That History Is Not Just About What We Were Before But Who We Are Now.

Jazz Is A Very Accurate, Curiously Accurate Accompaniment To 20th Century America.

We All Think That An Exception Is Going To Be Made In Our Case And Were Going To Live Forever. Being A Human Is Actually Arriving At The Understanding That Thats Not Going To Be. Story Is There To Remind Us That Its Just Ok.

I Think We Continually Need To Understand How Important An Event The War Was - How Defining, How Central To Who We Are. Everything That Came Before It Led Up To It, And Everything Of Importance To This Country - At Least Up To 1940 - Was A Consequence Of It. Even Now There's An Echo Of The War, However Faint, In Almost Everyone's Life.