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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO – 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 ...

Trumpeter Sam Irwin would have been happy to bring his Baton Rouge traditional jazz band, the Florida Street Blowhards, to Satchmo SummerFest on Aug. 5-6 at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. But he’ll be ...

It was a very good day for Satchmo. On June 30, 1964, the World’s Fair organizers declared the date “Louis Armstrong Day,” and the legendary Corona resident and his All Stars performed at the Singer ...

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New Orleans celebrates one of its most famous native sons this weekend with a festival that bears his nickname and offers big fun in the sun. Satchmo SummerFest is a two-day, noon to 8 p.m.

"Born on the Fourth of July." Many have made that yankee doodle boast — including songwriter George M. Cohan (born July 3) and MGM chief Louis B. Mayer (born July 12). But Louis Armstrong is a special ...

When people think about the iconic jazz musician Louis Armstrong, they tend to think about New Orleans, the city where he was born – and where jazz was born, too. That explains a question often posed ...

The year 1965 marked a turning point for art and culture in East Germany, when the ruling Socialist Unity Party decided to take a hard line against the “nihilistic“ and “pornographic“ Western ...