Sidney Poitier wasn’t happy with Martin Ritt’s “Paris Blues” (1961), not at all. Writing in his 1981 autobiography, “This Life,” Poitier rued the screen adaptation of Harold Flender’s 1957 novel of ...

“Louis,” released in 2010, is a black-and-white silent film in the classic tradition, with subtitles on text cards displayed between scenes, exaggerated gestures and facial expressions, and of course, ...

Wynton Marsalis is looking snazzy in a suit and tie as our Zoom video call gets underway, having just returned from a faculty meeting at The Juilliard School in New York. We immediately catch up a bit ...

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Tracy Morgan is fulfilling a lifetime dream of portraying one of his entertainment heroes, a role that will require the comedic actor to hit low notes with his vocal cords and high notes with a ...

Like any other industry, there are titans in music. These once-in-a-lifetime artists help shift the musical landscape across the globe. The revered trumpet player and singer Louis Armstrong defined ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Louis Armstrong House Museum has acquired the only known film of the great jazz musician in a recording studio, footage that was discovered in a storage facility. The 33-minute, ...

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