“Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.” DressesBottomTrashExquisiteArmstrongTrash Cans Author:Stanley Crouch
“The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few who can easily be mentioned with Stravinsky, Picasso and Joyce. His life was the embodiment of one who moves from rags to riches, from anonymity to internationally imitated innovator. Louis Daniel Armstrong supplied revolutionary language that took on such pervasiveness that it became commonplace, like the light bulb, the airplane, the telephone.” WorldLightMovingLanguageInfluenceJazzRichesAround The WorldRevolutionaryAirplaneContinuingTelephonesCommonplaceInnovatorsEmbodimentRagsStatureAnonymityBulbsArmstrongJoyceLight BulbAmerican MusicStravinskyRags To Riches Author:Stanley Crouch
