Jazz spilled from smoky clubs, streets buzzed with new machines, and women and men pushed boundaries like never before. The ...
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 ...
Debra Rogers Grinage remembers it like it was yesterday. She and her sister, Robyn Rogers Edwards, and a group of other kids from the neighborhood, were listening to jazz legend Louis Armstrong sing ...
Reported as one of the first times Armstrong spoke openly about politics, his statements were so shocking The Associated Press wouldn't run a story without more proof they were Armstrong's words.
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 ...
Wynton Marsalis is on his way to Chandler Center for the Arts with Cecile Licad and an all-star jazz ensemble to perform the score to “Louis,” a silent film telling a mythical tale of a young Louis ...
Katy Perry joined Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket. She sang the Louis Armstrong song "What a Wonderful World" while on board. Perry said the flight was about collective ...
The American mother-and-daughter Hamas hostages who were the first to be freed after the Oct. 7 attack relied on the inspirational Louis Armstrong song “What a Wonderful World” to endure the final ...