The area today offers little hint of that former, vibrant past. Running beneath the looming shadow of high-rises, this strip ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Louis Armstrong is undoubtedly one of the most influential musicians in American history. A towering figure in jazz and popular music, Armstrong’s gravelly voice, impeccable ...

Louis Daniel Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901. He was among the most influential figures in jazz, with a career spanning ...

Jazz grew out of different music styles that became popular at ... and even the music-filled funerals for which the city is known. Louis Armstrong, born in New Orleans in 1901, noted how the ...

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics, Freud is to medicine and the Wright ...

Lil Hardin helped introduce America to jazz music. She was a dedicated jazz pianist ... Though she might be identified in the jazz world as the wife of Louis Armstrong, she was much more than that.

In 1961, everybody knew Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong. He was the “ambassador of jazz”, touring the world playing his hot jazz ...

“Bless whoever it was who came up with the idea,” jazz historian ... about Armstrong’s rendition of the holiday chestnut. Courtesy Continental Production Co. "This is Louis ‘Satchmo ...

“I’ve always been interested in music,” he says. “But the fact that I got to interview Louis Armstrong is what piqued my interest in jazz.” ...