Louis Armstrong was arguably the most celebrated performer of the twentieth century. Known around the world for his prodigious talent on the trumpet, his inimitable vocal stylings, and as the foremost ...

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 composer ...

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Find details below for jazz programming coming up at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater running April 10 through April 23. Performers appearing at Birdland Jazz Club include Joey Alexander, Amy ...

In the jazz world, there has long been a theory that Louis Armstrong sold out by the mid-1930s, says historian Ricky Riccardi. Sure, Armstrong was an innovator and influential in the ’20s, the theory ...

In July 1922, Louis Armstrong arrived in Chicago from New Orleans and took a taxi straight to the Lincoln Gardens nightclub, where he had a job waiting for him in the band led by his longtime mentor, ...

LOUIS ARMSTRONG: (Singing) Hello, Dolly. This is Louis, Dolly. I'm so glad to have you back where you belong. FLORIDO: Louis Armstrong was one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time and a Black ...

His manager at the time was a potbellied white gangster named Johnny Collins, who wasted little on social niceties. The exploitative tilt of their working relationship was never a matter of public ...

The Louis Armstrong Center, Queens, New York. I had the good fortune to teach jazz history at Queens College, in the jazz department of the Aaron Copland School of Music, between 2010 and 2017. I say ...

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It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer Wynton Marsalis grew up as a fan of jazz pioneer and fellow New Orleans trumpeter/composer ...