“I get this question all the time,” Ricky Riccardi admitted. The director of research collections at the Louis Armstrong Center looked at me carefully. “Just last week, when I tried to sum ...

Louis Armstrong was already a worldwide star — a seasoned headliner with a Hollywood profile — when his wife, Lucille, surprised him with the purchase of a modest house in Corona, Queens ...

NEW YORK — Louis Daniel Armstrong, variously nicknamed “Satchmo ... mostly to expect a concert-style finale. In the Wikipedia age, information is not what audiences want so much as a ...

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.

Louis Armstrong is the latest music legend to have his life story told in a Broadway bio musical. The Grammy-winning trumpeter and vocalist — who was known as the King of Jazz over the course of ...

Armstrong died in 1971, shortly after celebrating his 71st birthday. His greatness has been increasingly recognized and celebrated in the decades since then, on recordings and in books and films.

With the release of new, previously unheard live recordings from the BBC, questions remain over Louis Armstrong's complicated and controversial career and persona. More than half a century after ...

A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, February 23, producers have announced. At the time of closing, the production will have played ...

Courtesy Continental Production Co. "This is Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong,” the voice resounds, “talking to all the kids from all over the world at Christmastime.” With that, the trumpeter ...

Which "A Wonderful World," a new musical about Louis Armstrong, has done — to an unusual degree. The show, in its current iteration, had two out-of-town tryouts. On Oct. 1, 2023 it opened in New ...

Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire, and proto-rap group The Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz ...