The innovative remake of a Broadway show tune dethroned the Beatles and won multiple Grammys.

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 ...

Titled One Night in Highland Park, the album captures Armstrong's March 19, 1957, performance at Highland Park High School in ...

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 ...

Tracy Morgan has previously expressed interested in playing late jazz legend Louis Armstrong in a biopic Tracy Morgan is keen on portraying Louis Armstrong in a biopic, according to the actor's Coming ...

If jazz was the quintessential American art of the last century, then Louis Armstrong easily made for its most universally ...

Private recordings, heard in the new documentary “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues,” add a further dimension to the artist. By Alan Scherstuhl The tapes are thrilling, revelatory, wrenching: the ...

Personal tapes and letters bring fresh insights into the jazz great as a musician and a Black man. By Lisa Kennedy When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we ...

Louis Armstrong’s Queens home became a National Historic Landmark and museum, preserving the jazz legend’s life and legacy.

One of Louis Armstrong’s trumpets, custom-made for the jazz legend in 1948 and given to a family friend five years later, will hit the auction block as part of Christie’s the Exceptional Sale. The ...

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 ...