Imagine a night in the musical theater where you get compressed versions of “Funny Girl” and “Funny Lady” plus “Funny Grandma” with a coda of “It’s a Wonderful Life” that includes the song “What a ...

The great jazz trumpeter and sandpaper vocalist gets the old jukebox treatment in a new Broadway musical starring James Monroe Iglehart. By Jesse Green By exploring Armstrong’s offstage struggles and ...

View Graffiti in the Gardens and enjoy the music of Louis Armstrong in the Banyan Bowl Rolling in to November with a mix of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The new stage musical about Louis Armstrong on Broadway opens with the jazz icon in a rehearsal room alongside an anonymous piano player. Keep an eye on the guy on keys. Audiences may ...

It’s fitting that today — on Juneteenth National Independence Day — we look back 99 years ago to the day when Louis Armstrong, an aspiring trumpet player from a New Orleans shantytown, liberated ...

Louis Armstrong (1901–1971), widely known by his nicknames 'Satchmo,' 'Satch,' and 'Pops,' was a legendary American trumpeter and singer. A towering figure in the world of jazz, Armstrong's career ...

To commemorate the 123rd anniversary of the birth of Louis Armstrong, the New Orleans Jazz Club will be playing several of Louis's — as he would say, “Good Old Good Ones” — in a completely free New ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Louis Armstrong’s innovative musicianship and incredible charisma as trumpeter and ...

For nearly 30 years, world-renowned jazz musician Louis Armstrong and his wife, Lucille, lived quietly in a small, two-story house in Corona, Queens. His professional life featured performances for ...

Sophisticated artist or folk musician? Virtuoso or clown? The debate about Louis Armstrong raged in living rooms across mid-20th-century America. Did the jazz master’s eye-rolling antics—his ...

Louis Armstrong's undeniable influence on jazz and popular culture has been the subject of many books, essays, and articles throughout the years, so one wonders will another biography add ...

Performances in N.Y.C. By exploring Armstrong’s offstage struggles and tensions, “A Wonderful World” wants to shatter the image of an entertainer who was far more than just affable. Louis Armstrong ...