“Mr. Jenkins’ Lonely Orphans Band,” the first track of Allen Lowe’s “Louis Armstrong’s America Vols. 1 & 2” (ESP Disk, out ...

Flushing Town Hall will host its monthly Louis Armstrong Legacy Jazz Jam on Wednesday, March 12, at 7 p.m. at 137-35 Northern ...

the band leader there, and the head of the home, Capt. Joseph Jones. “This is the beginning of really all of what you know Louis Armstrong was, and all that jazz became. That is, in my humble ...

Thus the first volume in the series, “What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years,” covered the concluding period in the great man’s chronology, from the end of his big band in ...

Louis Armstrong, born in New Orleans in 1901, noted how the music brought cheer to a solemn occasion: "After the brother was six feet under the ground, the band would strike up one of those good ...

We're in New Orleans for Mardi Gras! Louis Armstrong's second wife, an accomplished pianist and composer in her own right, ...