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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 ...

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 ...

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.

Louis Armstrong's undeniable influence on jazz and popular culture has been the subject of many books, essays, and articles throughout the years, so one wonders will another biography add ...

“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 ...