Louis Armstrong is one of the most influential figures in the history of jazz music. He popularized improvisational solos, wrote over 50 songs, and broke barriers as a Black man with widespread ...

The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong.

For nearly 30 years, world-renowned jazz musician Louis Armstrong and his wife, Lucille, lived quietly in a small, two-story house in Corona, Queens. His professional life featured performances for ...

When 21-year old Louis Armstrong left New Orleans and arrived in Chicago in 1922, he was well respected but not very well known outside of small jazz musician circles. His lodgings were less than ...

Actor and scholar Marvin Jefferson’s historical performances as Louis Armstrong began in Greeley in 2023. The New Jersey resident remembers his first Armstrong performance as “scary, but it was a ...

On April 5, 1923, Louis Armstrong recorded Chimes Blues with King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, featuring a short solo by the trumpet prodigy (although he was still playing the cornet at this time). As a ...

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 ...

Colorado Humanities’ Black History Live program and Colorado Mountain College Spring Valley will present a portrayal of jazz icon Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, which the public is invited to attend on ...

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 jazz composer ...