This weekend’s Satchmo SummerFest marks 43 years since Louis Armstrong passed away and 26 years since he charted with “What a Wonderful World,” a posthumous hit after it was included in the movie ...

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 ...

The Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, New York is all decked out for the holidays. The museum is celebrating its 10 year anniversary this year. At this time of year, visitors can see what the ...

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 ...

America’s first Black popular music icon is getting his due with a massive new center that’ll house a 60,000-piece collection and a venue for live music, lectures and screenings. NYC’s Louis Armstrong ...

For nearly 30 years, world-renowned jazz musician Louis Armstrong and his wife, Lucille, lived quietly in a small, two-story house in Corona, Queens. His professional life featured performances for ...

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 ...

“Stomp Off, Let’s Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong” by Ricky Riccardi, Oxford University Press, 488 pages. Ricky Riccardi, the preeminent Louis Armstrong scholar, has become one of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...