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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 opinion, the most important thing that we have.” ...

Quin Hillyer The virtuosos from the Crescent City, usually acclaimed as the two greatest wind-instrument performers of New Orleans traditional jazz, were the young cornetist Louis Armstrong ...