A young troublemaker at the Colored Waif’s Home encounters one horn and two music educators. The world changes.

Two photos circulating on social media for years authentically showed jazz legend Louis Armstrong drawing a trumpet on a ...

It’s a reproduction of a 1968 letter from the collection of the Louis Armstrong House Museum in New York that was written as a response to a letter from a fellow Waif’s Home alum. It’s more ...

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.

Today, American Beach is a quiet place to spend a day sunbathing or strolling along the Atlantic coastline, as most of the ...

So writes Ricky Riccardi, who should know. The director of research collections at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in New York, Mr. Riccardi has a unique perspective on Armstrong, having ...

The shrine to some of baseball's best and previously-forgotten players is getting too big to miss largely out of necessity, ...

The Museum of the City of New York’s “Songs of New York: 100 Years of Imagining the City Through Music” opens Friday, ...

When you think of Kansas City and New Orleans, what comes to mind? For many, it's the music—the jazz, the rhythm, and the deep-rooted history.

Kansas City and New Orleans are both known for jazz, but each city has its own sound. Jazz artist Jon Batiste will sing the ...