It’s fitting that today — on Juneteenth National Independence Day — we look back 99 years ago to the day when Louis Armstrong, an aspiring trumpet player from a New Orleans shantytown, liberated ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The new stage musical about Louis Armstrong on Broadway opens with the jazz icon in a rehearsal room alongside an anonymous piano player. Keep an eye on the guy on keys. Audiences may ...

To understand someone's life, you have to walk a mile in their shoes. Which "A Wonderful World," a new musical about Louis Armstrong, has done — to an unusual degree. The show, in its current ...

To commemorate the 123rd anniversary of the birth of Louis Armstrong, the New Orleans Jazz Club will be playing several of Louis's — as he would say, “Good Old Good Ones” — in a completely free New ...

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 ...

When 21-year old Louis Armstrong left New Orleans and arrived in Chicago in 1922, he was well respected but not very well known outside of small jazz musician circles. His lodgings were less than ...

One day years ago, jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was hanging with Willie Nelson and Ray Charles when the two older musicians started to talk about their long and diverse careers. “Ray, you know, you ...

A document from the National Archives, released to the online nonprofit Wikimedia and discovered by a New Orleans jazz expert, has led to what's believed to be a previously unknown photograph of jazz ...

Rebellious jazz took flight in Harlem at Minton’s Playhouse, but it was nurtured on the tree-lined streets that gave pioneering Black musicians a home. By Mia Jackson New jazz and exhibition spaces, ...

Louis Armstrong's life is too amazing to take it all in in one gulp - as many of his contemporary political, jazz, and entertainment figures were unable to do. But he does make us think hard about ...