This article appears in the November 13/20, 2023 issue, with the headline “Louis Armstrong’s Last Word.” “I get this question all the time,” Ricky Riccardi admitted. The director of ...

Come for the music in “A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical,” the Satchmo show that opened Monday night at Studio 54. As for the throaty crooner’s life story, read a book instead.

Private recordings, heard in the new documentary “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues,” add a further dimension to the artist. By Alan Scherstuhl The tapes are thrilling, revelatory, wrenching ...

It would be 35 years until mainstream popular music would offer as moving or profound a confrontation of racism, ... The shifting around makes for a nice flow. ... LOUIS ARMSTRONG’S BLACK & BLUES.

A&E; Music; Wynton Marsalis on music, Louis Armstrong and his early funk band days May 7, 2025 Updated Thu., May 8, 2025 at 2:53 p.m. Wynton Marsalis performs at dinner during the 2022 Jazz at ...