If you are already a jazz fan, then you don’t need a lesson in the greatness of Louis Armstrong or the monumental nature of his Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings. All you really need to know is the ...

An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged from the streets of New Orleans. The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis "Satchmo ...

The more you listen to young Louis Armstrong, the more you hear. The more you hear, the more you realize the extent to which jazz evolved from his intelligence, imagination, daring and sense of form.

"You can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played," trumpeter Miles Davis said. And while pianist Jelly Roll Morton may have claimed to have invented jazz, if any one artist could be said to ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong's birthday today! Lil Hardin helped introduce America to jazz music. She was a dedicated jazz pianist, who established a reputation as “Hot Miss Lil, ...

Jack Bradley had idolized trumpeter Louis Armstrong since he was 15 and first heard the jazz legend’s music on a 78 rpm record in his family’s Cotuit home, so he was understandably star struck upon ...

The selected writings of Louis Armstrong used in this collection were drawn from the historical documents stored in the Louis Armstrong House and Archives at Queens College/CUNY, the Hogan Jazz ...

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 ...

Joe Muranyi, who was bandleader Louis Armstrong’s last clarinetist and became a leading ambassador in the effort to preserve the traditional jazz sound on records and in concert, died April 20 at a ...

Louis Armstrong never played at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The last time he played in his hometown of New Orleans was at a 1968 event that was a precursor to Jazz Fest. During the ...

The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation has launched a $1 million emergency fund to support freelance New York City-area jazz musicians during the coronavirus pandemic. By Associated Press The ...

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, ...