Louis Armstrong’s crowd-pleasing public persona got him called an Uncle Tom and worse. In Satchmo at the Waldorf, playwright Terry Teachout mounts a modest if effective defense of the jazz trumpeter ...

The Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp is performing two shows on June 17 at Snug Harbor Bistro for its 31st annual fundraiser. Newly partnered with the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, ...

Louis Armstrong performing "Melancholy Blues," Mozart's Queen of the Night aria, and panpipes from Peru are etched among the cacophony of Earth sounds on the gold-plated records attached to Voyager 1 ...

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 ...

An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged from the streets of New Orleans. The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis "Satchmo ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong was also known as “Satchmo” or “Pops.” His first formal music lessons took ...

SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - Bob Masteller, a well-known muscisian in the Lowcountry and Coastal Empire, will be performing "A Tribute to Louis Armstrong" at the Westin Savannah Harbor and Resort on Sunday, ...

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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 ...

One day years ago, jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was hanging with Willie Nelson and Ray Charles when the two older musicians started to talk about their long and diverse careers. “Ray, you know, you ...