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"If you have to ask what jazz is, you may never know." (Louis Armstrong) Lots of time has been put in within the lives of history's most influential statistics, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up on the lives of America's most important men and women in enough time it takes to finish a commute. And they can achieve this while learning interesting facts long ignored or never known. Louis Armstrong once said, "Each and every time I close my eye blowing that trumpet of mine - I look right in the heart and soul of classic New Orleans.... It offers given me something to live for." This statement conjures an image that most anyone acquainted with jazz music can recall: Armstrong clutching his trumpet forcefully, his eye closed in a fashion that distances him from his physical area in favor of a perfect tranquility between your man and his device. As Armstrong alludes to in this remark, this connection also talks to the long lasting effect of his New Orleans background that prepared his musical style. Indeed, it extended to live on through his music. While carrying out, Armstrong came out lost in a reverie. It was a condition that imbued his performances with a kind of mythical flair, as though one were watching a man used by an instant of transcendence. In other words, if the music of Louis Armstrong produced an psychological response in the listener, this invariably paled in comparison to the deep, organic pathos he could produce through his music.
