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I started listening to jazz in the 1990s, during the reissue era that Cuscuna himself ushered in. At the time, those pastiche-Reid Miles style re-covered CD reissues of LT-era releases were everywhere. It really shaped what I listened to and bought. Cuscuna and his involvement in the LT series and beyond is a piece of jazz history that I would love to see explored in a detailed longform article.  Anyway, RIP.

RIP Sir discovered jazz via the classics at 31 years old or so in 1991 or so discovered freer end of jazz in the mid to late 90’s discovering newer forms in greater levels of intensity via recordings and especially through live concerts on a very regular basis since 2009 or so. The pandemic was rough but this past 18 months I’ve been attending well over 10 shows a month and my mind continues to be affected like a young person’s mind. Open ears.    I’m very uninterested in most of what I listened to in my younger years except for my rediscovery of The Grateful Dead circa 1967-78. Only Crimson, Can and some post punk stuff of my early years has any traction any longer for me. much more excited to listen to Michael Foster, Chuck Roth, Sandy Ewen, Brandon Lopez, Mat Maneri, Tim Berne, Gerald Cleaver, Nate Wooley, Dave Rempis, Webb Crawford and a multitude of others creating music in the moment. Thoroughly exciting and when I’m good mentally and spiritually as deep as when I first heard Starless or Suppers Ready.    fwiw my discovery of classic jazz especially miles monk trane and the blue notes etc was also very exciting at the time. Thank Michael for that for sure.    Seeing Evan Parker circa 1998 at the knitting factory & Joe Maneri with his quartet at around the same time was even more revelatory for me. I knew there was something happening at that moment that didn’t exist previously. Same stuff still appearing. Different new music connected however obliquely to miles monk trane et al      

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/stomp-off-lets-go-9780197614488?cc=es&lang=en& The revelatory origin story of one of America's most beloved musicians, Louis Armstrong How did Louis Armstrong become Louis Armstrong? In Stomp Off, Let's Go, author and Armstrong expert Ricky Riccardi tells the enthralling story of the iconic trumpeter's meteoric rise to fame. Beginning with Armstrong's youth in New Orleans, Riccardi transports readers through Armstrong's musical and personal development, including his initial trip to Chicago to join Joe "King" Oliver's band, his first to New York to meet Fletcher Henderson, and his eventual return to Chicago, where he changed the course of music with the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings. While this period of Armstrong's life is perhaps more familiar than others, Riccardi enriches extant narratives with recently unearthed archival materials, including a rare draft of pianist, composer, and Armstrong's second wife Lillian "Lil" Hardin Armstrong's autobiography. Riccardi similarly tackles the perceived notion of Armstrong as a "sell-out" during his later years, highlighting the many ways in which Armstrong's musical style and personal values in fact remained steady throughout his career. By foregrounding the voices of Armstrong and his contemporaries, Stomp Off, Let's Go offers a more intimate exploration of Armstrong's personal and professional relationships, in turn providing essential insights into how Armstrong evolved into one of America's most beloved icons.   Table of Contents Prologue - "They're Going to Write About Me in the History Books" 1. "Just Glad to Be Here!" - 1901-06 2. "Everything Happened in the Brick Row" - 1906-10 3. "Just a Kid Who Could Use a Little Word of Kindness" - 1910-11 4. "Did That Band Swing!" - 1911 5. "Blessed Assurance" - 1911-12 6. "Hooray for Louis Armstrong!" - 1913-14 7. "A Beautiful Soul" - 1914 8. "Man, You Ain't Never Heard So Much Horn Blowin'" - 1914-15 9. "The Memory of the Bullies and Trouble Makers" - 1916 10. "My Fairy God Father" - 1916-17 11. "Just Wasn't My Time to Die, Man" - 1917 12. "Had to Eat" - 1917-18 13. "Nothing But Fuck and Fight" - 1918-19 14. "They Loved Us" - 1919 15. "Descending the Sky Like a God" - 1919-21 16. "Son, You Got a Chance" - 1921-22 17. "I Always Played Pretty Under Him" - 1922 18. "The Hot Miss Lil" - 1922-23 19. "The Little Frog-Mouthed Boy Who Played the Cornet" - 1923-24 20. "Second Trumpet to No One" - 1924 21. "Big Headed Motherfuckers" - 1924-25 22. "I Know I Can Play and I Know I Can Sing" - 1925 23. "Girl, I Think You're Crazy" - 1925-26 24. "I Got the Heebies" - 1926 25. "The Latest Novelty" - 1926 26. "Just Keep on Blowing" - 1927 27. "Awful Glorious Days" - 1927-28 28. "We Had No Idea It Was Gonna Have the Effect That It Did Have" - 1928 29. "Louis Had Changed the Whole World" - 1929 Epilogue - "I Never Did Leave New Orleans" Index