Tracy Morgan has previously expressed interested in playing late jazz legend Louis Armstrong in a biopic Tracy Morgan is keen on portraying Louis Armstrong in a biopic, according to the actor's Coming ...

Catherine Russell is one of the hardest-working vocalists performing today, and she has two sets on New Year's Eve at the Regattabar in Cambridge. Ahead of the shows, she spoke with Al Davis and Va ...

A New Orleans newspaper reporter paid a rare visit to the so-called Colored Waifs Home in New Orleans a century ago this month, providing an outsider's take on what had become of the music program at ...

Reporting from New York — In 1947, jazz great Louis Armstrong got himself a new gadget -- a tape recorder, fresh out on the consumer market. It was a big, boxy machine that he set up in concert halls ...

One of Louis Armstrong’s trumpets, custom-made for the jazz legend in 1948 and given to a family friend five years later, will hit the auction block as part of Christie’s the Exceptional Sale. The ...

Sacha Jenkins' doc asks us to think a little harder about what Armstrong meant in the context of both music and U.S. history. By John DeFore Would it be possible to make a comprehensive film about ...

A version of this story about “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” first appeared in the Guild & Critics Awards/Documentaries issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. Louis Armstrong was a titan of American ...

How many Broadway shows has Louis Armstrong been in? Louis Armstrong has appeared on Broadway in 2 shows. How many West End shows has Louis Armstrong been in? Louis Armstrong has not appeared in the ...

“Tell my story like it wuz, boys”, Louis Armstrong said in 1970, when he suggested that Max Jones and my late father, John Chilton, write his “full-scale” biography. The famous trumpeter had been so ...

A new four-disc compilation presents recordings Armstrong made for Verve in 1957. Critic Kevin Whitehead says the album includes a wealth of alternate takes, warm-ups and rehearsal sequences. This is ...

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A CD set from Mosaic, full of singles and albums made between '46 and '66, confirms the variety of Armstrong's studio sides — and shows how much work went into making them sound casual. This is FRESH ...