[78-L] Louis Armstrong RANT, WARNING

[Cary Ginell]

Well, it wasn't me. I taught music appreciation to elementary school kids for two years before I got my current job, and I spent a session each year teaching the kids about the development of jazz. When I brought up Armstrong, I played "West End Blues" and focused on his a cappella introduction. The kids were all astounded and fascinated as to how he could come up with those notes and play them so fast - they asked about Louis, where they could get his CDs, what else he did. It was so gratifying to see that Armstrong genius was transformed to a new generation of youngsters. I don't know what others do, but there are two years worth of kids at Westlake Hills and Park Oaks Elementary that know something about Louis Armstrong. (I also played "Singin' the Blues" by Trumbauer in that session).

And I never took a teaching course in my life.

Cary Ginell


> >>> Music teachers have actually used this recording to teach
> >>> the subject of Armstrong; many of them never heard of the
> >>> Hot Five.
> 
> Evidence???  Names??  Places??  I'm sure that it probably has happened
> because as an ex-professor I know that teachers all too often don't know
> diddlysquat because their teachers also didn't know diddlysquat because
> Education is the degree all too many college kids take when they don't
> have the smarts for real subjects.  (Us college profs don't take
> Education courses, so we supposedly know our subject content but not how
> to teach.  K-12 teachers know how to teach but not what to teach because
> all they took were Ed courses.)
> 
>  
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> >> And what the hell is all this outrage about Louis sullying 
> >> himself by performing something other than jazz? Jee-zus!
> >> Did you get in a rage because Jimmy Durante sang "Young at Heart"
> >> without making reference to his pal Umbriago?
> 
> No, I loved seeing him do this on the Hywd Palace program, and I loved
> those WB albums.  I'm a sucker for sentiment.  
> 
> >> I don't know when I've read a bigger load of crap than
> >> this thread.  dl
> 
> Well, how about this?
> 
> > No matter what you think of these singers, they're the flavor
> > of the month, but the legacy of both Bing and Satch continue.
> > And I bet Rudy Vallee is spinning in his grave with fury,
> > wondering why we're not mentioning him.  Cary Ginell
> 
> Song stylist?  How about Fred Astaire?
> 
> Mike (did I add to the crap load?) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  
> 
> 
> 
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