Satchel mouth

It’s Satchmo Fest in New Orleans and this weekend is filled with free entertainment everywhere. It’s also White Linen night on Saturday, when the galleries all open up their doors and everyone wears white and hits the streets. WWOZ has been playing nonstop Louis Armstrong and that has been a delight! Armstrong got his nickname Satchmo after the editor of a magazine called him Satchel Mouth because of his large lips.

Louis Armstrong is one of the best things to come out of this great city – today I was listening on the way home from the hospital to a recording Armstrong made in Africa of A Wonderful World – it doesn’t get any better than him. He said of this city – “Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine—I look right in the heart of good old New Orleans…It has given me something to live for.”

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