INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Looking For Louis, then and Now

But which one? The sound on the records, the iconic image on the television screen, or the actual person? In the spring of 1967, I was fourteen—someone who had secretly listening to Louis Armstrong records for a few years. And I was fortunate enough to be alive when Louis was popular—HELLO, DOLLY! was still vivid in his repertoire and in people's memories so that he appeared on the Hollywood Palace, with Danny Kaye, alongside Herb Alpert and the Tiajuana Brass, on Ed Sullivan, Mike Dou...

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