It was preserved in hundreds of reel-to-reel tapes that he created for himself. Those recordings, made over many years, ...

Louis was born almost 125 years ago ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

The year 1965 marked a turning point for art and culture in East Germany, when the ruling Socialist Unity Party decided to take a hard line against the “nihilistic“ and “pornographic“ Western ...