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 ...

Few artists in the history of music are as indelible as jazz legend Louis Armstrong. The National Philharmonic salutes Satchmo with “Sounds of New Orleans: A Tribute to Louis Armstrong” at 8 p.m.

The 25th annual Satchmo SummerFest, a two-day celebration honoring New Orleans jazz legend Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, kicks off Saturday, Aug. 2 at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. The event will feature ...

"You can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played," trumpeter Miles Davis said. And while pianist Jelly Roll Morton may have claimed to have invented jazz, if any one artist could be said to ...

Two musical greats of the 20th century receive the one-man-play treatment this month. “Satchmo at the Waldorf,” at American Conservatory Theater’s Geary Theater, imagines Louis Armstrong a few months ...

Louis Armstrong: The First Great Jazz Soloist August 4, 2016 marked the 115th birthday of music icon Louis Armstrong. Armstrong’s immediately recognizable style and playful sense of humor helped to ...

The book for "A Wonderful World" was written by playwright and TV writer Aurin Squire, who grew up in Miami-Dade County. Among the South Florida shows that had to be put on hold at the start of the ...

The great jazz trumpeter and sandpaper vocalist gets the old jukebox treatment in a new Broadway musical starring James Monroe Iglehart. By Jesse Green By exploring Armstrong’s offstage struggles and ...

New book published by Oxford and written by BYU music professor Brian Harker gives new perspective to jazz icon Louis Armstrong's early career. At the time of his Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings, ...

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 ...