Louis Armstrong's New Orleans | 
Day 2 Skeleton/Bones - have you heard this Halloween/spooky season song?! If not add it to your playlist and have a little fun. Check it out on YouTube and let it get you in the mood for the spooky season and maybe you can shake your old bones.
#scarathlon #skeletoncrew @CIwojick and @StayCurious
“It is possible to listen [to the New Orleans musical style] as Armstrong listened, to grant conviction and passion a place in the first line of valuation, with technical sophistication pushed slightly to the rear. One can value _willingness_ [original text italicized] and learn to hear it, even to think about it as carrying a glimpse of spiritual or artistic purity — at a certain point it does not seem to matter how this is phrased.” __p 48
From Chapter 1, set-up to Armstrong‘s time in the Tuxedo Brass Band: “Many musicians hated marching no matter what the weather. Emile Barnes refused to parade unless he owed someone a personal favor. Hypolite Charles thought that marching had removed a few years from his life. Aaron Clark thought that he had contracted what would be his final illness from marching; his dying request was that his son never become a musician.”
Ah, got it. A guaranteed no-bail. Tom was one of my professors at Duke, and took our class to New Orleans in April 2005 --yes, just before Hurricane Katrina — while he was researching this book.
