Louis Armstrong was already a worldwide star — a seasoned headliner with a Hollywood profile — when his wife, Lucille, surprised him with the purchase of a modest house in Corona, Queens, in 1943. He ...
CORONA, Queens (WABC) -- He was called "Satchmo," and "Pops" by his friends, but Louis "Louie" Armstrong was one of the most famous Americans of the 20th century. His home in the Corona section of ...
Armstrong, whose signature songs include “What a Wonderful World” and “When the Saints Go Marching In,” got a big vote of ...
When jazz legend Louis Armstrong’s fourth wife went searching for a home for the couple to live in, she looked east — to Queens. Lucille bought it herself, without telling Armstrong, with money she ...
WHAT:"Louis Armstrong and Little Rock: What Really Happened" preceded by House tours and exhibit, Breaking Barriers: Louis Armstrong and Civil Rights at the Louis Armstrong House Museum, 34-56 107 ...
The great jazz trumpeter and sandpaper vocalist gets the old jukebox treatment in a new Broadway musical starring James Monroe Iglehart. By Jesse Green By exploring Armstrong’s offstage struggles and ...