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 ...

He ultimately went with Ken Burns’s documentary, Jazz—and it ended up being a pretty fateful choice. “The first couple of episodes happened to be about Louis Armstrong, and I just thought ...

What the biggest surprise you discovered while making Jazz? I think the surprise that was better than anything else was getting to know Louis Armstrong ... call a film by Ken Burns.

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 ...