If you’re in or near Greenwich, Connecticut, the Greenwich Library is presenting “Remembering Louis Armstrong,” a symposium occasioned by the New Haven premiere of Satchmo at the Waldorf. I’ll be taking part in the discussion, along with George Avakian, who produced Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy; Dan Morgenstern, who knew Armstrong well and wrote about him perceptively in Living With Jazz; and Ricky Riccardi, the Armstrong blogger and author of What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years. Between the four of us, I expect we’ll have something interesting to say.
The proceedings start at seven p.m. tonight at the main library, located at 101 West Putnam Avenue. For more information, go here.
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