Includes dozens of unpublished photos, musical transcriptions and analysis, unpublished genealogical data, unpublished interviews, complete new discography Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of ...

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Like the timeworn story of the blind men inaccurately describing an elephant by examining different parts of it, most listeners’ impression of American jazz/pop/blues legend Louis Armstrong is defined ...

Sacha Jenkins' film explores the artistic titan Louis Armstrong was and the man beneath the mask. We hear a clip of the late sax legend Artie Shaw stating, “I would say jazz almost stems from Louis ...

Louis Armstrong: The First Great Jazz Soloist August 4, 2016 marked the 115th birthday of music icon Louis Armstrong. Armstrong’s immediately recognizable style and playful sense of humor helped to ...

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 ...

For the November, 1998 issue of High Times, writer Steve Gelsi investigated Louis Armstrong’s (1901-1971) ties to weed. In honor of Armstrong’s birthday on August 4, we’re republishing the story below ...

Louis Armstrong, one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, left behind a vast trove of materials including collages, scrapbooks, and audio recordings when he died in 1971. The Louis ...

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“I’ve seen everything from a child, coming up,” Louis Armstrong once said. “Nothing I ain’t never seen before.” He wasn’t kidding. In his revelatory 1954 memoir, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, the ...

For nearly 30 years, world-renowned jazz musician Louis Armstrong and his wife, Lucille, lived quietly in a small, two-story house in Corona, Queens. His professional life featured performances for ...