This writing was evidently inspired by a bewildered and unfriendly response regarding my new insights into the life and music of Louis Armstrong, thus the forceful tone.

It's OK if my new essay about Louis "Satchmo" Karnofsky Armstrong passes over your head, lacking an understanding and knowledge of jazz.

And I would be glad to teach you what you don't understand. But my sense is that you aren't interested in learning about the art of music, which is understandable because you are focused on other areas.

What you may wish to consider is that everything you thought you knew about jazz from the outside, because like most people you are on the outside, is misleading - lazy lies made up by confused academics and their students who go on to become writers, AND NOT THE ACTUAL CREATORS - emphasis hoping to wake you from your slumber - only is this arena, of course.

To begin with, the world is not made up of black and white in terms of an artist's paint color spectrum.

Rather, there are infinite shades and colorations in-between.

In fact, this is the very thing that separates a great artist from the opposite.

Louis Armstrong with Tillie and Morris Karnowsky in New Orleans has some key new insights into the life and music of a major jazz artist.

- Michael Robinson Longhi, May 2024, Los Angeles

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Michael Eric Robinson Longhi is a Los Angeles-based composer, pianist, musicologist and recording engineer. His over 200 albums include over 150 albums for meruvina and over 50 albums of piano improvisations both solo and with Eliot Zigmund formerly of the Bill Evans Trio and tabla player Anindo Chatterjee of India both among the greatest percussionists in recorded history. Michael has performed and lectured for churches, universities, colleges, NPR, Pacifica, college and community radio stations, high schools, elementary schools and community centers in America and all over the world online.