He had already insisted that Armstrong was chosen by God "to bring the feeling and message and the identity of jazz to everybody." But in a final reflection said, Louis Armstrong's overwhelming ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns tells ... growth and development of jazz music from the gritty streets of New Orleans to the Lincoln Gardens on Chicago's south side, where Louis Armstrong first won fame ...

To hear the purest and most sublime example of jazz improvisation, listen to Louis Armstrong. As the writer Stanley Crouch has observed: "In Armstrong's work there is a new kind of confidence that ...

Jazz begins in New Orleans, nineteenth century America's most cosmopolitan city, where the sound of marching bands, Italian opera, Caribbean rhythms, and minstrel shows fills the streets with a ...

There are over 100 pieces of music in Prohibition – from nineteenth century hymns to the Tin Pan Alley songs of Irving Berlin to Jazz greats from Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington ...

James Monroe Iglehart, who stars as Louis Armstrong in Broadway ... became interested in bringing Armstrong’s life to Broadway after binge-watching Ken Burns’ documentary series “Jazz ...