Jazz grew out of different music styles that became popular at ... and even the music-filled funerals for which the city is known. Louis Armstrong, born in New Orleans in 1901, noted how the ...

The Louis Armstrong Musical will play its final performance on Broadway on Sunday, February 23, 2025. At the time of closing, ...

Nearly 50 years after his passing, Louis Armstrong's achievements as a trumpeter, vocalist, actor, author, Civil Rights advocate, and humanitarian remain unparalleled. He left behind a timeless body ...

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

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.

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 ...

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics, Freud is to medicine and the Wright ...

Louis Armstrong, the iconic jazz trumpeter and singer, was known for his vibrant personality and groundbreaking music. But ...

Louis Armstrong—the world’s most famous jazz musician—was an international celebrity who could have lived anywhere. Yet in 1943, he and his wife, Lucille, settled in a modest house in Corona ...

Join Tony Award® winner James Monroe Iglehart and a talented ensemble cast as they bring Louis Armstrong’s incredible ... this spectacular celebration of music, filled with vibrant dance ...

the year they released the very first jazz record Trumpet legend Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo, forged a career that lasted five decades Former Davis accompanist Herbie Hancock made a name ...