Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire and proto-rap group the Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred ...

Stomp Off, Let’s Go, focuses on the early life of jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong and the million-to-one odds against him making ...

Wynton Marsalis is looking snazzy in a suit and tie as our Zoom video call gets underway, having just returned from a faculty ...

With permanent and temporary exhibits that deep dive into the history and culture of jazz and a collection that includes over ...

I hope you liked my haiku. Some say April is the cruelest month, but with its showers come National Poetry Month AND Jazz ...

Lil Hardin helped introduce America to jazz music. She was a dedicated jazz pianist ... Though she might be identified in the jazz world as the wife of Louis Armstrong, she was much more than that.

“Bless whoever it was who came up with the idea,” jazz historian ... about Armstrong’s rendition of the holiday chestnut. Courtesy Continental Production Co. "This is Louis ‘Satchmo ...

SAN DIEGO – Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic ... No disrespect to funk, but it’s not jazz.” But funk is the music Marsalis happily performed for several years in his teens.

The film, which features an original score by Marsalis as well as music from 19th-century New Orleans composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk, tells a fictionalized tale of young Louis Armstrong growing ...

It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer ... trumpeter/composer Armstrong, the subject of the national “Louis” silent-film-with ...