Put simply, American Popular Music can be clearly divided into two eras: before Louis Armstrong and after him. His advanced sense of rhythm, melodic innovation, and ebullient charisma mixed together ...

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 ...

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We’re happy to present our annual August “Satchmo SummerFest” issue. It focuses, in large part, on New Orleans’ traditional jazz community and legacy—which, of course, is influenced by the spirit and ...

If you’re visiting the Satchmo Summerfest taking place this weekend at the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint, step inside for a look at Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong’s cornet. The piece of ...

The multifaceted Wycliffe Gordon — trombonist, trumpeter, sousaphone player, composer and jazz educator — is delighted to be back at Satchmo SummerFest. The New York City- and Lexington, ...

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As local high school marching bands fill the streets with rolling thunder over the next couple of weeks, consider the battered cornet on view at the New Orleans Jazz Museum exhibition “It All Started ...

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 ...