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 ...

He answered to "Pops," "Satchmo," and "Louie." But he called himself Louis. Documentary filmmaker Sacha Jenkins and jazz pianist Jason Moran have been immersed in Louis Armstrong's recordings and ...

The exhibit features recollections from about 15 neighbors who lived near Armstrong and wife Lucille Wilson Armstrong.

Louis Armstrong, one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, left behind a vast trove of materials including collages, scrapbooks, and audio recordings when he died in 1971. The Louis ...

New Orleans is restoring an old tailor shop where Louis Armstrong spent much of his youth. WWNO’s Alana Schreiber reports. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans, but his heart belonged to Corona, Queens — where he bought a home in 1943 for $8,000. “You take this neighborhood we live in,” the jazzman told Ebony magazine ...

Louis Armstrong’s 1968 BBC session in London — which the legendary trumpeter and singer felt was his “last great” performance — will finally be released this summer. Louis in London, out July 12 via ...

Private recordings, heard in the new documentary “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues,” add a further dimension to the artist. By Alan Scherstuhl The tapes are thrilling, revelatory, wrenching: the ...

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