In "Jazz" — Ken Burns' 11-chapter history of the art form — exceptional jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis calls fellow native New Orleanian and horn player Louis Armstrong "an unrivaled genius." ...

Satchmo SummerFest, the annual celebration of the life, music and legacy of New Orleans jazz icon Louis Armstrong, returns ...

After three weeks of music training at the Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp, students are getting ready to showcase ...

Louis Armstrong House Museum honors Wynton Marsalis, performing along with musicians Ricky Riccardi, Herlin Riley and Samara Joy, ...

Before Jay-Z at the Roots Picnic or Bad Bunny at Made in America, there was Louis Armstrong at the Philadelphia Music Festival. Before there was the American Idol competition, there was Philly’s ...

The 21-year-old Armstrong, on cornet, was a protégé of New Orleans fellow cornetist and band leader King Joe Oliver. On April 5, 1923, they went into a Richmond, Ind., studio for a two-day session.

It’s fitting that today — on Juneteenth National Independence Day — we look back 99 years ago to the day when Louis Armstrong, an aspiring trumpet player from a New Orleans shantytown, liberated ...

To understand Louis Armstrong's recording career between 1935 and 1946, you have to view the 11-year period as a marketing campaign. Newly divorced from wife Lil at the depth of the Depression, Louis ...

Born on August 4, 1901, Louis Armstrong’s legacy lives on more than 120 years later. Known as Satchmo, the trumpet-playing icon, who lived until July 6, 1971, is known for his songs like “What a ...

LOUIS ARMSTRONG: (Singing) Hello, Dolly. This is Louis, Dolly. I'm so glad to have you back where you belong. FLORIDO: Louis Armstrong was one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time and a Black ...