Oh When the Saints Go Marching In is one of the most iconic songs performed by Louis Armstrong. This traditional gospel tune, ...

Louis Armstrong: The First Great Jazz Soloist. August 4, 2016 marked the 115th birthday of music icon Louis Armstrong. Armstrong’s immediately recognizable style and playful sense of humor ...

Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire, and proto-rap group The Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz ...

NEW ORLEANS -- The scene, though often portrayed in the pastels of bourbon and magnolia romanticism, was worthy of Dickens. Music was on every corner in the black ghetto of Louis Armstrong's youth ...

Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong, who nearly died this spring, is happily back practicing for his eventual return to work, shown in the upstairs den of his Corona, New York home on June 23, 1971.

Louis Armstrong had given so much to this song that Duke had written. That is about as great a tribute as you can get,” says Brunious. The first Louis Armstrong tribute jazz show takes place at ...

Louis Armstrong never played at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The last time he played in his hometown of New Orleans was at a 1968 event that was a precursor to Jazz Fest.

Marsalis, himself a jazz trumpet icon, Irvine with a jazz ensemble and pianist Cecile Licad to play live as a silent film about Louis Armstrong screens. Skip to content All Sections ...