From Matt Glaser, Satchmo, the Philosopher:

"... the luminosity and perpetual freshness of Armstrong's music. These
qualities, as well as his essentially abstract ability to affect our
perception of time, link him with the other artistic and scientific
revolutionaries of the first half of the 20th century. Recently I had a
very public fantasy (in Ken Burns's Jazz) in which Werner
Heisenberg attends a Louis Armstrong concert in Copenhagen, in 1933.
Did I go too far? Actually, I didn't go far enough."

That Log24 entries connect both these dates to Louis Armstrong is, of course, purely coincidental.

Why is this 

man smiling?

From www.ams.org:

Serge Lang, 1927-2005

"Serge Lang passed away on September 12 at the age of 78. Lang was
a professor at Yale University from 1972 to 2005. He received his Ph.D.
from Princeton University in 1951 under the direction of Emil Artin.
Lang was awarded the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra in 1960 and the
Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition in 1999. He was well
known for his mathematics texts and was a member of the National
Academy of Sciences. [Item posted 9/15/05]"

From a review of one of Lang's books, Challenges:

"Again and again, Lang has caught powerful academics and journalists
at evasions, stonewalling, and intimidation.
It's cost him considerable time, effort, and money; it's also made
him a lot of enemies. 
It should be mentioned here that Professor Lang is also a productive
researcher in mathematics and a prolific author of books of mathematics.
I literally don't know how he does it. He must
have absolutely no life outside his office.

OK, sure, Lang is a crank. He's also a national treasure.
His commitment to the ethic of honesty and plain speaking
should be an example to us all."

Serge Lang,
May 19, 1927 -
September 12, 2005

Lutheran Rhythm, continued:

"This is a sane and sensible interpretation, deeply musicianly and
devoid of eccentricity. Her attitude, rather like Toscanini’s, is to
accept the text com’ e scritto (for example, she adopts the
'square-wheel' rhythm of the E minor Gigue) and then to make legitimate
adjustments...."

Bach's "square-wheel" rhythm

(Gigue from Partita No. 6
in E Minor, BWV 830)

Holy Cross Day

  

The Cross and the Wheel:

"... the quality of life as of death
and of light as of darkness is one,

one beauty, the rhythm of that Wheel,

and who can behold it is happy

and will praise it to the people."

-- Robinson Jeffers,
   "Point Pinos and Point Lobos,"

   quoted at the end of
   The Cosmic Code by Heinz Pagels,
   Simon & Schuster, 1982

Al Casey, a guitarist whose playful acoustic rhythms and solos were a
defining feature of Fats Waller's band in the 1930's and 1940's, died
on Sunday [9/11] in Manhattan. He was 89....

Mr. Casey played and recorded with Louis Armstrong in 1944 when both
were recognized as leading jazz musicians in the Esquire magazine
readers' poll....

A 90th birthday celebration for Mr. Casey, scheduled for Thursday
evening at St. Peter's Church, 54th Street and Lexington Avenue, will
now be his musical memorial service, open to the public.

Final arrangements, continued:

Justice at Heaven's Gate

"Gate --- Early term for a Jazz musician.
Armstrong is the original Swing Jazz player that's why they call used to call him 'Gate.'"
-- All About Jazz

"Armstrong is also frequently cited as the main source or
popularizer of words like scat, gate (a greeting among jazz musicians
that became a popular WWII term for a buddy or pal)²

² The term apparently goes back to Louis’s own adolescent nickname, 'Gatemouth.'"
-- Jazz Institute of Chicago

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Temple of Poetry
and
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The Devil and Wallace Stevens

"When asked which words in the English language are the most
difficult to define precisely, a lexicographer would surely mention funky."

-- Answers.com

"Founded by Isaac Kaufmann Funk, a Lutheran
minister who in 1876 began editing and publishing two magazines, The Homiletic
Review and The Voice, the latter for the Prohibition Party. Unfortunately,
neither magazine paid its way. The following year he teamed with [one of his classmates at Wittenberg College] A.W. Wagnalls,
a lawyer and accountant, who got Funk on sounder financial footing.  They began by publishing pamphlets and
booklets for the clergy, mostly commentaries on the Bible."

-- Major American Publishers and Wikipedia

* Company: "The Grateful Dead"-- "a name chosen at random from
a dictionary-- some claim it was a Funk & Wagnalls, others an
Oxford Dictionary-- by Jerry Garcia"

-- Wikipedia