Advocate staff photo by JOHN McCUSKER -- For the first time, Louis Armstrong artifacts and photographs held by the Louisiana State museum and the Louis Armstrong House in Corona Queens New York will ...

“Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.” – Louis Armstrong Music already was an integral ...

It turns out Chris Cungtion isn't the only young person who was sent away for shooting a gun into the air. Louis Armstrong, the great cornet and trumpet player and singer from New Orleans, fired a gun ...

The Karnofsky Shop and Residence was home to the Karnofsky family, who helped care for Armstrong as a child. The family loaned Armstrong enough money to buy his first brass instrument: a cornet. Visit ...

The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, ...

Sacha Jenkins’ engrossing and informative documentary “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” reintroduces one of the 20th century’s most towering and beloved cultural icons to a new generation. Born and ...