Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire and proto-rap group the Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred ...

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 is looking snazzy in a suit and tie as our Zoom video call gets underway, having just returned from a faculty ...

“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 ...

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 ...

a neighborhood whose culture and characters helped shape young jazz great Louis Armstrong. The 1300-1200 block of Perdido Street, as seen in 1937. The street name, Perdido, is sadly appropriate ...

SAN DIEGO – 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 ...

tells a fictionalized tale of young Louis Armstrong growing up on the streets of Crescent City in the early days of the 20th century. It’s a silent film that draws heavy inspiration from the ...