Louis Armstrong, born in New Orleans in 1901, noted how the music brought cheer to a solemn occasion: "After the brother was six feet under the ground, the band would strike up one of those good ...
Back in 1957, jazz icon Louis Armstrong was asked by the US State Department to travel to the Soviet Union preaching "US values", but the trumpeter refused.
Whereas Louis Armstrong is kind of riding over everything ... One gets the sense that’s when the real fun began. “My band really used to play the hell out of Connie’s show,” Armstrong ...
Mosaic Records is excited to announce the release of Columbia and RCA Victor Studio Recordings of Louis Armstrong 1946-1966, a 7-CD boxed set that will take listeners into the studio with Armstrong in ...
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.