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 ...

As local high school marching bands fill the streets with rolling thunder over the next couple of weeks, consider the battered cornet on view at the New Orleans Jazz Museum exhibition “It All Started ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This cornet was identified by various ...

It would be difficult to find a better embodiment of the American dream than Louis Armstrong, who was born in 1901 to a single mother in the rough, poverty-stricken Back O’ Town neighborhood near what ...

Louis Armstrong's undeniable influence on jazz and popular culture has been the subject of many books, essays, and articles throughout the years, so one wonders will another biography add ...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana -- It's going to be a really rough day in New Orleans. That's how Monday morning was described as daylight revealed the pile of rubble where historic jazz landmarks once stood.

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 ...

Like any other industry, there are titans in music. These once-in-a-lifetime artists help shift the musical landscape across the globe. The revered trumpet player and singer Louis Armstrong defined ...

Columbia/Legacy: C4K 57176 (CK 57177--CK 57179, CK 66496). Additional no. on container: 57176. Compact discs. Booklet containing notes by Dan Morgenstern and Loren Schoenberg, discographical ...

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 ...