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Wynton Marsalis on music, Louis Armstrong and his early funk band days
Marsalis has been the president of the 56-year-old Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation since 2018. He received the ...
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15-Year-Old Reid Wilson Sounds Beyond His Years Crooning a Louis Armstrong Staple
In an April 11 Instagram video, 15-year-old Reid Wilson showed off the vocal skills that catapulted him to the AGT Semifinals ...
Wynton Marsalis invites you to join him for a (not so) silent film
Wynton Marsalis is looking snazzy in a suit and tie as our Zoom video call gets underway, having just returned from a faculty ...
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Blues and ragtime were the rule in the Back-of-Town neighborhood where Louis Armstrong grew up
The area today offers little hint of that former, vibrant past. Running beneath the looming shadow of high-rises, this strip ...
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Breeze adds new nonstop flights from New Orleans, this time to two new East Coast cities
Breeze Airways, which launched four years ago, is a low-cost airline that specializes in routes to and from tourist ...
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Why Louis Armstrong is the defining figure of the 20th century
“I’m all Armstrong, all the time!” is how Ricky Riccardi neatly describes his obsession to me, on a call from his home in New York. Having first discovered Louis Armstrong’s music at age 15, he has ...
New Orleans flyers can head to these South Carolina, Georgia cities with new, nonstop flights
New, nonstop flights are now being offered from the New Orleans area to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia, starting Sept. 4 and 5.
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Wynton Marsalis on music, Louis Armstrong, and his early funk band days
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 ...