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.
He was laid to rest at the Flushing Cemetery, Section 9 in Flushing, Queens, New York City not too far from his home in Corona, Queens. His tombstone is a red granite, emblazoned simply Satchmo Louis Armstrong with a beautiful white trumpet figure laden on top. Buried with him is his last of four wives, Lucille Armstrong who died in 1983. Inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Long Island Hall of Fame in 2008.