Christgau on Teachout on Armstrong

The dean on the recent biography and on the significance of Gatemouth the Magnificent here.

Happy Birthday, Satchmo! August 4, 1901--July 6, 1971

And to you, too, Mr. President, sir! And to Percy Bysshe Shelly (1792), Helen Kane (1903), William Schuman (1910), Frankie Ford (1939), Frank Vincent (1939), Billy Bob Thornton (1955), Roger Clemens (1962).

And R.I.P. Billy Lee Riley.