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"There are 12 seconds that changed the course of jazz -- the opening of Louis Armstrong's 1928 trumpet solo on 'West End ...

Get all the top news & discounts for Off-Off-Broadway & beyond. Andy Karl made his Broadway debut in Saturday Night Fever. Since then, he has appeared in Groundhog Day (Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Traveling can be very stressful, especially during the holidays. That’s why the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport is hoping to bring some cheer through music.

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), one of the world’s most well-known and well-loved musicians, gave up to 300 performances per year. Over the course of his career, he reputedly played in every country ...

Debra Rogers Grinage remembers it like it was yesterday. She and her sister, Robyn Rogers Edwards, and a group of other kids from the neighborhood, were listening to jazz legend Louis Armstrong sing ...

Reported as one of the first times Armstrong spoke openly about politics, his statements were so shocking The Associated Press wouldn't run a story without more proof they were Armstrong's words.

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 ...

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an ...

“Stomp Off, Let’s Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong” by Ricky Riccardi, Oxford University Press, 488 pages. Ricky Riccardi, the preeminent Louis Armstrong scholar, has become one of the ...

Louis Armstrong’s virtuoso talents and charm earned him a singular place on top of the jazz world, as well as international fame and popularity, which can obscure his very humble beginnings. He adored ...