Marsalis has been the president of the 56-year-old Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation since 2018. He received the National Medal of the Arts In 2005 and has written or co-authored seven books, ...

“I said, ‘What about Louis Armstrong ... World indigenous sounds into an original American music that was a precursor to jazz. Marsalis, like Armstrong, is a native New Orleanian.

Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic ... became the first artist to ever win Grammy Awards in both jazz and classical music. It was a feat he handily repeated the following year.

SAN DIEGO – Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic ... No disrespect to funk, but it’s not jazz.” But funk is the music Marsalis happily performed for several years in his teens.