The new archive contains Satchmo's papers, records, letters and more. It sits across from Louis Armstrong's house, now a museum, on 107th Street in Corona, Queens.

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Across the street from the jazz icon's home in Queens, a site of pilgrimage for fans from around the world, sits the new Louis Armstrong Center, which brings his 60,000-item archive back to the block.

The music of Lil Harden Armstrong is the focus as we sample a new release from Caili O'Doherty. The current-day American pianist has re-imagined music written by the pioneering piano player and ...

Here, visitors can listen to live music in a 75-seat performance venue. And here, too, scholars can now find the Louis Armstrong archives, moved from its original home at Queens College.

Ricky Riccardi fell in love with Armstrong’s music when he was 15 years old, after encountering tracks from the 1950s like the almost 10-minute version of “St. Louis Blues” on Louis ...

Louis Armstrong was a famous jazz musician known for his gravelly voice and brilliant trumpet playing. Born in New Orleans in ...

Louis Armstrong and his wife, Lucille, lived in Corona, Queens in a house that sits across the street from the new Armstrong Center. It's been preserved just as they left it, as Moran showed Sanneh.

The 21-year-old Armstrong, on cornet, was a protégé of New Orleans fellow cornetist and band leader King Joe Oliver. On April 5, 1923, they went into a Richmond, Ind., studio for a two-day session.

Since 2008, Louis Armstrong’s house in Corona, Queens, where the trumpeter lived from 1943 until his death, in 1971, has been the Louis Armstrong House Museum, celebrating the heroic jazz ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The new stage musical about Louis Armstrong on Broadway opens with the jazz icon in a rehearsal room alongside an anonymous piano player. Keep an eye on the guy on keys.