Marsalis has been the president of the 56-year-old Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation since 2018. He received the National Medal of the Arts In 2005 and has written or co-authored seven books, ...

Marsalis, himself a jazz trumpet icon, Irvine with a jazz ensemble and pianist Cecile Licad to play live as a silent film about Louis Armstrong screens.

“I said, ‘What about Louis Armstrong ... World indigenous sounds into an original American music that was a precursor to jazz. Marsalis, like Armstrong, is a native New Orleanian.

"It's really fun and it's validating," said Kristin Spangler. "It really feels special to walk out feeling like what we're ...

As you step foot into the Southern American city of New Orleans, you are enveloped into a world where the air is filled with a vibrant kind of energy that almost feels tangible. It is a city where ...

SAN DIEGO – Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic ... No disrespect to funk, but it’s not jazz.” But funk is the music Marsalis happily performed for several years in his teens.