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.
Louis Armstrong not only demanded to be treated fairly, but his music broke through many of these social barriers too. When Armstrong played it did not matter who you were, you knew something special was happening. He was behind the push away from collective improvisation and into a world of jazz soloing.