The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis "Satchmo ... "West End Blues," a famous early jazz tune. In 1929 Armstrong appeared on Broadway ...
A young troublemaker at the Colored Waif’s Home encounters one horn and two music educators. The world changes.
Actor and scholar Marvin Jefferson’s historical performances as Louis Armstrong began in Greeley in 2023. The New Jersey ...
Tony award-winning actor James Monroe Iglehart firmly captures the exuberance and warmth of Armstrong and takes the audience through the famed musician’s life.
The lessons he learned during those early years stayed with him his whole life, forming “artistic ... The director of research collections at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in New York ...
An actor playing Armstrong, that is. The Colorado Humanities is teaming up with Colorado Mountain College to present Black ...
The Early Years of Louis Armstrong") but also subsequent visits here later in his life. On one, he reigned as Zulu 1949. That display, which features photos of Armstrong in traditional blackface ...