Music for Grownups: The Louis Armstrong House
By: Richard Gehr | Source: AARP.org | 2008-07-08
Richard Gehr is a veteran music critic based in New York City. His reviews for AARP.org appear every Tuesday; his columns on Thursdays.
What better way to celebrate the Fourth of July, I thought, than by visiting Louis Armstrong's house a couple of days before his birthday? Or what used to be his birthday, since a baptismal certificate discovered during the late 1980s indicates that Satchmo was actually born on August 4, 1901, rather than on July 4, 1900, the date he observed throughout his life.... Back to Article
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