Happy Birthday, Louis! WBUR’s Connection talk show host Christopher Lydon had an excellent interview with Wynton Marsalis on Louis Armstrong yesterday to commemorate the “official” hundredth anniversary of his birth. Marsalis gives interesting testimony on Satchmo considering he started out as a disbeliever and, asked to sum up Armstrong’s place in 20th century culture, ends up swearing that even a Picasso’s originality pales in comparison to Armstrong’s. Read polymath Lydon’s pithy essay introducing his subject and click on the link for streaming audio of the entire hour. [Yes,The Connection can be worthwhile even when it’s not devoting an hour to the weblogging phenomenon.. Bill McKibben wrote a telling portrait of this show and its host in The Atlantic Monthly last fall.]