For nearly 30 years, world-renowned jazz musician Louis Armstrong and his wife, Lucille, lived quietly in a small, two-story house in Corona, Queens. His professional life featured performances for ...
Actor and scholar Marvin Jefferson’s historical performances as Louis Armstrong began in Greeley in 2023. The New Jersey resident remembers his first Armstrong performance as “scary, but it was a ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong spent a lot of time in the 1920s in Davenport, working summers for the ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- In honor of Black History Month and Broadway Week, Entertainment reporter Joelle Garguilo spoke to the cast of 'A Wonderful World' on Broadway before it closes the curtain at the ...
Sacha Jenkins' doc asks us to think a little harder about what Armstrong meant in the context of both music and U.S. history. By John DeFore Would it be possible to make a comprehensive film about ...
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 ...
Colorado Humanities’ Black History Live program and Colorado Mountain College Spring Valley will present a portrayal of jazz icon Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, which the public is invited to attend on ...