A young troublemaker at the Colored Waif’s Home encounters one horn and two music educators. The world changes.
Tony award-winning actor James Monroe Iglehart firmly captures the exuberance and warmth of Armstrong and takes the audience through the famed musician’s life.
Though she might be identified in the jazz world as the wife of Louis Armstrong ... the Jones Music Store on Chicago's South Side, working afternoons at the store for $3 a week. Although the salary ...
On Tuesday, eight inches was recorded at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International ... and he intended to stay for some presidential inauguration events. Instead, he watched President Trump ...
Mr. Reeves was in Washington over the weekend for the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting, and he intended to stay for some presidential inauguration events. Instead, he watched President ...
Three months shy of graduation, Duke dropped out ofschool and began his professional music career. The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie ... Curious too, to see Ellington ...
Through 'A Wonderful World,' a new generation is getting to know the man who showed us what a wonderful place the world could ...
The most admired, desirable and attractive people and things, those that are universally deemed cool, have been part of the ...
The story goes that the lyrics to “Black and Blue,” the jazz standard popularized by Louis Armstrong ... definition of a song here is recorded music, discounting the protest inherent to ...
WGN’s Dave Schwan talks with author Larry Tye about his book, “The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count ...
NEW ORLEANS — Airlines are slowly resuming flight operations at Louis Armstrong Airport after a rare winter storm swept across New Orleans on Tuesday. Hundreds of flights were canceled and MSY ...