More than six decades after jazz icon Louis Armstrong accidentally turned the Broadway tune Hello, Dolly into a chart-topping ...

The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong.

Brandon Louis Armstrong appears on stage in the musical "A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical" in New York. (Jeremy Daniel via AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) NEW YORK (AP) — The new stage musical ...

Louis Armstrong is one of the most influential figures in the history of jazz music. He popularized improvisational solos, wrote over 50 songs, and broke barriers as a Black man with widespread ...

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 composer ...

Ahead of the release of the forthcoming live album LOUIS IN LONDON, Louis Armstrong’s legendary track “What a Wonderful World” has been certified 5x Platinum by the RIAA, marking the original ...

Louis Armstrong‘s importance to the city of New Orleans is immeasurable. As a musician, he made over 3000 recordings in his career, with 19 of those recordings becoming top-10 hits. He also composed ...

Many music writers and historians consider Gertrude “Ma" Rainey the matriarch of American blues. Beginning her career in the dust of Southern tent shows and minstrel circuits, she became one of the ...

When people think about the iconic jazz musician Louis Armstrong, they tend to think about New Orleans, the city where he was born – and where jazz was born, too. That explains a question often posed ...

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. Audiences may ...