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The great Louis Armstrong holds a unique place in the history of popular culture. As a cultural ambassador, he spread his infectious love of music across the globe. His innovations in the field of ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Dec. 21, 2023. Click here for that audio. Hear an extended version of this conversation on our podcast, Here & Now Anytime. One of the greatest artists ...

Brandon Louis Armstrong appears on stage in the musical "A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical" in New York. (Jeremy Daniel via AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) NEW YORK (AP) — The new stage musical ...

The first live document of Armstrong’s return to the small group format after the big band era. The All Stars—Jack Teagarden on trombone, Barney Bigard on clarinet, Sid Catlett on drums, Arvell Shaw ...

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Sacha Jenkins’ engrossing and informative documentary “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” reintroduces one of the 20th century’s most towering and beloved cultural icons to a new generation. Born and ...

Louis Armstrong is an artist whose musical genius, expressed with his trumpet, his voice and his personality, rarely fails to bring a smile to whoever is listening. However, as Sacha Jenkins’ new ...

He answered to "Pops," "Satchmo," and "Louie." But he called himself Louis. Documentary filmmaker Sacha Jenkins and jazz pianist Jason Moran have been immersed in Louis Armstrong's recordings and ...

Louis Armstrong: The First Great Jazz Soloist August 4, 2016 marked the 115th birthday of music icon Louis Armstrong. Armstrong’s immediately recognizable style and playful sense of humor helped to ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on July 10,1971 . This story was written by Anthony Burton.) They buried Louis Armstrong yesterday in the shade of a handsome birch tree amidst the same sort of ...