Larry Kart Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 http://www.nola.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/12/our_times_the_louis_armstrong.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 Fascinating indeed! The photos of the original 1910 documents and newspaper clippings make me wonder what else there is to be discovered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ayers Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 I quite seriously assumed this thread was about Lance Armstrong. I had to do a double take when I read the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted January 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 I quite seriously assumed this thread was about Lance Armstrong. I had to do a double take when I read the link. I just changed the topic title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 The fact that "Armstrong" makes people think of Lance rather than Louis probably says something (nothing positive) about the times we live in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Dolan Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 I wouldn't say that, Paul. Lance Armstrong was such a recent and relevant actor in our culture that it seems like a perfectly reasonable and honest mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ayers Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 The fact that "Armstrong" makes people think of Lance rather than Louis probably says something (nothing positive) about the times we live in. And if I don't get it what about all the people who *don't* post forty times a week on a jazz bulletin board... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ayers Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 And in fairness to me, Larry has posted about Lance before.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 Interesting article. Louis owes his career in many ways to the Jones family establishing that home and his 1913 arrest! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umum_cypher Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 Interesting article. Louis owes his career in many ways to the Jones family establishing that home and his 1913 arrest! I see from one of the reproduced newspaper items that Louis was leading a band that included Louis Smith, Richard Williams and James Brown - trumpet-heavy maybe, but there's a line up for you. Richard Cook as 'flag boy' too, before he turned to writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 Pops was a banger-in-waiting. Good thing he lived when he did, in a lot of ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmonahan Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 It's always amazing when archives like these pop up, especially about the African-American experience in America. So much of that was lost. Gives me hope that there's more out there somewhere! gregmo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 Very interesting. Thanks, Larry. I guess that if you already look like a "dangerious and suspicious character" at the age of 9, you should stay off the streets of New Orleans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 Very interesting. Thanks, Larry. I guess that if you already look like a "dangerious and suspicious character" at the age of 9, you should stay off the streets of New Orleans. You can wish you had a choice. . . but Louis probably didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 (edited) Thanks for posting Larry. What wasn't clear to me (unless I missed it) is who now holds these newly discovered records. They should be put into a safe place to safeguard them against further deterioration. Edited January 8, 2015 by Brad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 As for why the original title was mistaken for LANCE A. - easy to explain in my opinion. A topic (ANY topic) about THIS jazz person would have been much more appropriate inside the jazz forum (Artists? Misc. Music? Jazz in Writing?) and not in a multi-topic "non-political" forum outside the actual jazz forum. After all, the minutest trivia of the lives of other jazz personalities are evoked and discussed inside the forum too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted January 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 Moved to "Artists." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 Now we might get a complaint that bikers are artists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 deviant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat5 Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 I think it likely that Louis would have been a great musician and probably a trumpet player without his experience at the 'Home'. Why am I alone in this view? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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