The name Satchmo will always be connected with Louis Armstrong's career and legacy, but its origins highlight his eagerness ...

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It’s Satchmo’s 125th this week, and it has columnist Quin Hillyer thinking about the future of jazz. The state’s signature ...

Louis Armstrong's name is almost always pronounced "Louie," but the jazz legend himself insisted it was actually "Louis." ...

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 ...

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 ...

Satchmo SummerFest is a free event with music on three stages at the New Orleans Jazz Museum Aug. 1-2. This year, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to a $2.7 million grant from Robert F. Smith’s Fund II Foundation, The Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, NY is digitizing thousands of valuable artifacts of the late jazz legend, ...

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 ...