Armstrong
I learned something today reading about Louis Armstrong in the NY Times. Perhaps we condense history too much into cartoon images of people. This is especially dangerous as all the great jazz artists begin to pass into history.
I often think educators perpetuate these cartoonish stories about artists without checking them out. Imagine if we really studied Armstrong and really looked at his music. In a perfect standards driven world what should we be teaching and learning? I hope educators model learning properly and share articles like this with their classes about possibly the greatest artist of the 20th century.
