[Dixielandjazz] Re: Focal Dystonia

[Charlie Hooks]

On Monday, August 8, 2005, at 12:51 PM, Janie McCue Lynch wrote:

>  Thinking of Louis Armstrong literally "shaving off parts of the 
> muscle with a razor blade" is so sobering...but apparently the 
> definition of this disorder wasn't commonly known to musicians 
> then.  

Jane, maybe I misunderstood, but my impression is that Louis did NOT 
have focal dystonia; if he had, he couldn't have played at all.   
This was another ailment.

Charlie
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Ellington, who died in 1974, "was always a religious man" who read 
the Bible from cover to cover some seven times and felt jazz was 
another form of prayer.