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Two thousand hours of Louis Armstrong

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Geoff Edgers on how the Louis Armstrong Museum is finding a new life online during the coronavirus pandemic -- and, just a warning, this segment contains explicit language. From The Post’s podcast “All Told,” how one blues musician is changing his act under self isolation. And Reena Flores on a new kind of romantic comedy on Netflix.

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Jazz legend Louis Armstrong is being honored in a new way at a nonprofit museum that’s going digital during the pandemic.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, this is Martín. Just a quick warning, there is some explicit language in today's show.

0:05.4

Okay, enjoy.

0:09.6

From the newsroom of the Washington Post.

0:19.1

It's Ellen Nakashima with Washington Post.

0:20.7

This is Post Reports.

0:22.3

I'm Martín Powers.

0:25.9

It's Friday, May 1st.

0:30.4

Today, how the arts are surviving even in a pandemic, a blues musician stuck at home,

0:36.5

and a new romcom that's challenging stereotypes.

0:42.0

With the coronavirus, the challenge that museums are facing right now is, I mean, it's obvious,

0:48.2

they aren't open.

0:52.4

Jeff Edgers is a National Arts Reporter for the Post.

0:55.2

You know, you can't see anything on the wall, you can't watch a performance,

0:59.6

all of their programming is on hold and shut down.

1:03.2

People are having to rethink how they do things and nowhere are we seeing that more than in the

1:09.4

world of arts and culture. We have been seeing a flood of material online.

1:16.8

You'll young, performing as the snow falls at his home.

1:22.5

What's so funny about Elvis Costello and what looks like his bedroom?

1:30.1

Jonathan Biss at the piano, all this stuff, it's, you almost don't have time to follow it.

1:35.4

But one particular project that caught my eye is this amazing audio project,

1:40.5

it's a Louis Armstrong House Museum, which is basically a complete diary of Louis Armstrong's

1:47.8

life in his own words.

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