The new Corona Collection exhibit at the Louis Armstrong House Museum will make you smile. The oral history exhibit brings ...
Sacha Jenkins does something so straightforward with how he begins “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” that it’s easy to overlook his intent. He opens with a clip of Orson Welles introducing Armstrong ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON -- A live recording of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong playing his trumpet for one of the last times is being released to the public for the first time. On Jan., 29, 1971, Armstrong was a ...
Louis Armstrong was already a worldwide star — a seasoned headliner with a Hollywood profile — when his wife, Lucille, surprised him with the purchase of a modest house in Corona, Queens, in 1943. He ...
CBS News correspondent, Steve Hartman, hosted a recurring feature from 1998-2004 entitled “Everybody Has a Story.” in which a dart was thrown at a map of the United States and Hartman would follow the ...
Performances in N.Y.C. By exploring Armstrong’s offstage struggles and tensions, “A Wonderful World” wants to shatter the image of an entertainer who was far more than just affable. Louis Armstrong ...