He had good reasons to sing “It’s a wonderful world.” In the 1950s, Louis Armstrong was the unofficial “Goodwill Ambassador” of the United States as his jazz music had fervent fans all over the planet ...

Willis Conover’s popular Voice of America radio show gave American jazz a worldwide stage, and Louis Armstrong, its brightest star, was ready for the spotlight. A front-page story in The New York ...

Louis Armstrong was already a worldwide star — a seasoned headliner with a Hollywood profile — when his wife, Lucille, surprised him with the purchase of a modest house in Corona, Queens, in 1943. He ...

NEW YORK-- He's considered among the greatest musicians of all time, and although he was born in New Orleans, Louis Armstrong called Queens home for the last 30 years of his life. Now, his love for ...

It’s fitting that today — on Juneteenth National Independence Day — we look back 99 years ago to the day when Louis Armstrong, an aspiring trumpet player from a New Orleans shantytown, liberated ...

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 ...

Somebody in the crowd would say ‘Hello Dolly!’ And each night it kept getting louder: ‘Hello Dolly!’ ‘Hello Dolly!’ So Louis turned to me and said ‘what the hell is they talking about, Hello Dolly?’ … ...

“When the times comes for me to head for the pearly gates, I’ll play a duet with Gabriel – maybe it’ll be ‘Sleepy Time Down South’ or maybe ‘Hello, Dolly'” – Satchmo. Louis Armstrong, the jazzman ...

Among the characters Louis Armstrong interacted with as a child growing up in New Orleans is a boy he calls Red Sun. Armstrong, in his 1952 autobiography, introduces Red Sun as the central figure in ...

Sacha Jenkins' film explores the artistic titan Louis Armstrong was and the man beneath the mask. “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues,” directed by Sacha Jenkins, is a captivating documentary that does ...