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Although it is usually left unstated, the 4th atom after melody, harmony and rhythm in constructing music is texture - the way the music sounds. Using trumpet synthesizers, Oud, voice, guitar synthesizers, Fender Rhodes, Fisarmonic and electric bass along with acoustic trumpet, piano and drums, Paolo Fresu creates a startling different sonority for the songs in the Gershwin-D...

 "My favorite Louis Armstrong anecdote concerns his audience with Pope Paul VI. The Pope, so the story goes, asked Armstrong if he and his wife had children. ''No, Daddy,'' the trumpeter cheerfully replied, ''but we're still wailing.'' Though the chances Armstrong actually said this, or anything like it, are close to nil, it is the sort of thing one would have wanted him to s...