Author Ricky Riccardi says Armstrong's innovations as a trumpeter and vocalist helped set the soundtrack of the 20th century. His book is Stomp Off, Let's Go. Originally broadcast Jan. 30, 2025.

As part of Jazz Fest 2025, Jazz Maui will host three concerts paying tribute to how Hawaii influenced popular music, ...

Colorado’s Queen City Jazz Band is performing a free concert at Rousch Auditorium at the YMCA of the Rockies at 7:30 PM on ...

Jazz is one of music’s most important genres ... ragtime and the very first jazz recordings through to classics by Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and the dawn of the ...

Lalo Schifrin, the prolific composer perhaps best known for the 'Mission: Impossible' theme, has passed away at the age of 93 ...

At 89, the name synonymous with jazz for thousands of Iowa listeners spanning multiple generations aired his last "Gentle ...

Lalo Schifrin, the Grammy-winning composer who brought a jazzy, pulsating immediacy to dozens of film and TV scores - most memorably the “Mission: Impossible” theme - and who chose a radical absence ...

Before streaming services, black music was pressed onto 78-rpm records, even before vinyl. As we wrap up our Black Music Appreciation Month celebration, we introduce you to Justine Goode, who is ...

Tucked away at the LAX Marriott lies the Sweet & Hot Music Walk of Fame, honoring jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. Established in 1996 by the Sweet & Hot Music Foundation, this ...

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.