Sachmo's Star

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>From BeliefNet

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/68/story_6802_1.html#cont

Jazz was cooked up here--out of American marching band music and the drumming 
on Congo Square and the genius of New Orleans' native sons and daughters. As 
Ken Burns' documentary series recently revealed, a Jewish family helped Louis 
Armstrong make it out of the difficult poverty of his youth, and in gratitude 
the jazz giant always wore a Jewish star around his neck.