“I said, ‘Wow,’” Marsalis says on a recent video call. “I said, ‘What about Louis Armstrong?’” “And Ray said, “I’m talking about a human being!’” Marsalis says, laughing ...

And that was just a kind of mythic, nonfactual thing that dealt with life in New Orleans around Louis Armstrong's time with little Pops as a character from a mythological standpoint. All of these ...