Author Ricky Riccardi says Armstrong's innovations as a trumpeter and vocalist helped set the entire soundtrack of the 20th century. His new book about Armstrong's early life is Stomp Off, Let's Go.

Elysium Furnace Works Kicks Off 2025 Season With A Solo Piano Festival, Beginning With Dave Burrell on Saturday, March 1 in ...

Byron Stripling will be guest conductor for “Gershwin, Berlin & Friends” which begins at 7:30 p.m. at Springfield Symphony ...

As with any subject, history can be explored in a number of ways. In high school and college, students might study it through ...

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's ...

This is the amusing moment a pig enjoyed listening to saxophone jazz played on a farm. A saxophonist performed a soothing ...

When Mary Lou Williams arrived at Duke in 1977 as the University’s first artist-in-residence, she was already an icon in the ...

A modern-day renaissance man, jazz trumpeter and opera composer Terence Blanchard is an 8-time Grammy Award-winner whose film ...

The concert will take place on Sunday, Jan. 19 at 3 p.m. in MSU’s Fairchild Theatre, and the program will be performed by MSU ...

Armstrong’s amorous relationships demonstrated that while he was definitely in love with his music ... to the iconic jazz cornetist/trumpeter, composer, and vocalist Louis Armstrong (Satch ...

The holiday-bedecked elves in David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band provided the kind of Yuletide cheer that had a packed crowd of early era jazz fans loving every ... with Armstrong's "Swing ...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is used to making people laugh. From Saturday Night Live to Seinfeld and Veep, the 63-year-old actor is best known for delivering dry one-liners and punchlines. But this year ...