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Celebrating Jazz Architect, Genius and Legend Louis Armstrong to Close Out #JazzAppreciationMonth (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)
We end our celebration of #JazzAppreciationMonth today with a short tribute to a seminal architect of the sound, the legendary New Orleans son, Louis Armstrong.
To read about Armstrong, read on. To hear about him, press PLAY:
https://goodblacknews.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GBNPADpod043022.mp3
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When I conduct an orchestra there’s always that moment where the audience is surprised because I am not what they expect. That’s the role of a woman in an an orchestral world as a leader. Now I’m the kind of leader that looks how I look, I’m not seven feet tall, and people are genuinely surprised, like ‘It can’t possibly be!’ I feel like I’m a vehicle to discuss other possibilities.
It’s why I say that there’s something we need to understand, that we need to love each other. From love to hate there’s less than a space. We’re centered in hate but not in love. All the philosophies and religions speak of love. Everybody with three fingers of conscious in their brains talks about love, and it’s what we need.
-Tania León, composer & conductor[interviewed by NBC News re: her opera, The Little Rock Nine]
She composed an opera about the Little Rock Nine?!
She sure did, she’s boss that way
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