the period for full DGME payment as the minimum number of years of formal training required to satisfy the initial board requirements of the longest program, plus one year. As discussed above, Medicare now imposes a limit on the number of residents it supports.
Louis Armstrong was the greatest of all Jazz musicians. Armstrong defined what it was to play Jazz. His amazing technical abilities, the joy and spontaneity, and amazingly quick, inventive musical mind still dominate Jazz to this day. Only Charlie Parker comes close to having as much influence on the history of Jazz as Louis Armstrong did.
Without his influence, there might be a music called Jazz but it would not be what it is. Louis Armstrong was told and he believed that he was born on July 4, 1900 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jazz is America's gift to the rest of the world and our only native art form. The most influential jazz musician should have been born on America's birthday at the turn of the century.