A young troublemaker at the Colored Waif’s Home encounters one horn and two music educators. The world changes.

The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong. A diverse mix of cultures in New Orleans dating back to the 18th century ...

WGN’s Dave Schwan talks with author Larry Tye about his book, “The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count ...

Exactly 100 years ago this winter, two recordings features Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet marked the triumph of New ...

The most admired, desirable and attractive people and things, those that are universally deemed cool, have been part of the ...

Through 'A Wonderful World,' a new generation is getting to know the man who showed us what a wonderful place the world could ...

CD3: When The Saints Go Marchin' In; Basin Street Blues; Tin Roof Blues; Sweet Georgia Brown; St. Louis Blues; When It's Sleepy Time Down South; Intro The All Stars by Lucille Armstrong ... Now You ...

The building was composed as a contemporary place for education, entertainment, and research, containing the 60,000-piece Louis Armstrong Archive (the world's largest for any jazz musician) and a ...

There are, conversely, Broadway-ites who might not be so clued in to jazz history. Louis Armstrong — was he ... "What I ...