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.
I don't wish to be misunderstood. Of course Louis Armstrong was the preeminent soloist of his age, but to the extent that we focus on him as a solo artist and mythologize the idea that he created the jazz solo, we lose sight of his equally important role in the development of ensemble jazz.