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.
Both stories have a lot of elements of truth. Louis Armstrong was connected to and heavily influenced by the Lithuanian-Jewish family, the Karnofskys. They did arrange for him to have his first Coronet musical instrument. In fact later in his life he wrote a book about the Karnofksys and his connection to them.