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 ...
“When the times comes for me to head for the pearly gates, I’ll play a duet with Gabriel – maybe it’ll be ‘Sleepy Time Down South’ or maybe ‘Hello, Dolly'” – Satchmo. Louis Armstrong, the jazzman ...
Louis Armstrong died in his sleep on July 6, 1971, of a heart attack at his home in the Corona section of Queens, New York. He had observed his 71st birthday two days prior on July 4. Tributes poured ...
"An all-American institution" is how Dick Cavett introduces Louis Armstrong on a episode of Cavett’s ABC talk show, aired just months before Satchmo’s death 45 years ago today. It’s obvious that ...
At the Louis Armstrong House Museum in New York, tour guide Hyland Harris sometimes seems to channel the bigger-than-life jazz musician who lived here for decades with wife Lucille. Harris tells how ...
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 ...
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