Isn't that great? The writer interviewed Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton for the article. What a time that was.
I remember talking to an older gal at church about the kid’s music tastes nowadays, but said “I guess that’s the way it always is - the parents just think it’s noise”. She surprised me and said “Yep - my parents hated the music I lked too!” (She was 80+) I looked funny at her and said “What music was that?” “Big Band. If it wasn’t all strings it was the Devil’s music!”
Absolutely — I got hooked on the Jazz PBS miniseries by Ken Burns recently, so a lot of that stuff they were saying was still pretty fresh in my mind. Like Louis Armstrong being influenced on the street by Bobby Bolden. Stuff like that. Those pictures - haunting. I freaking LOVED Louis Armstrong when I was a kid in the 60s. He belongs to the ages now.