Debra Rogers Grinage remembers it like it was yesterday. She and her sister, Robyn Rogers Edwards, and a group of other kids from the neighborhood, were listening to jazz legend Louis Armstrong sing ...

Rajan and Daley celebrate a legendary duo, Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) and Louis Armstrong (1901–1971), whose musical chemistry “would push and pull, push and pull. Until the music notes started to ...

Reported as one of the first times Armstrong spoke openly about politics, his statements were so shocking The Associated Press wouldn't run a story without more proof they were Armstrong's words.

Construction is set to begin on an $84.5 million express shuttle roadway at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, a project officials say will ease traffic congestion and improve ...

“Stomp Off, Let’s Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong” by Ricky Riccardi, Oxford University Press, 488 pages. Ricky Riccardi, the preeminent Louis Armstrong scholar, has become one of the ...

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One day years ago, jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was hanging with Willie Nelson and Ray Charles when the two older musicians started to talk about their long and diverse careers. “Ray, you know, you ...

Wynton Marsalis is on his way to Chandler Center for the Arts with Cecile Licad and an all-star jazz ensemble to perform the score to “Louis,” a silent film telling a mythical tale of a young Louis ...