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Part X
"It's All Good"
The music of Louis Armstrong helped shape modern life in too many ways to count & made jazz into a music perfectly formed to express the creative genius of the individual
it lives on today in the sound of every solo played by every instrumentalist since Louis Armstrong first introduced the concept of virtuosity & improvisation to the music
And Mezz Mezzrow lives on too, in the shape of every fat joint & every bag of marijuana passed from friend to friend everywhere in America & Europe for the past 70 years
& in every popular band in the Western world in which Black people & white people have united in public to make some music
We offer our profound thanks for the beauty of their contributions to our lives today & for leading the way through the morass of American life
with special appreciation for all the growers of marijuana all over the world & our intrepid comrades who risk life & limb to supply us with the substances we require
& all the warriors doing time in the vast penitentiaries of America as prisoners of the War on Drugs We salute you all & thank you once again for all the good you have done
'cuz it's all good it's all good it's all good that's right, it's all good
Franklin & Rampart, New Orleans November 12, 1998
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