Tracy Morgan has previously expressed interested in playing late jazz legend Louis Armstrong in a biopic Tracy Morgan is keen on portraying Louis Armstrong in a biopic, according to the actor's Coming ...

The exhibit features recollections from about 15 neighbors who lived near Armstrong and wife Lucille Wilson Armstrong.

New Orleans is restoring an old tailor shop where Louis Armstrong spent much of his youth. WWNO’s Alana Schreiber reports. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

He answered to "Pops," "Satchmo," and "Louie." But he called himself Louis. Documentary filmmaker Sacha Jenkins and jazz pianist Jason Moran have been immersed in Louis Armstrong's recordings and ...

Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart will recreate his critically acclaimed performance as Louis Armstrong. Last fall, Iglehart starred in the pre-Broadway production of A Wonderful World in New ...

Louis Armstrong’s 1968 BBC session in London — which the legendary trumpeter and singer felt was his “last great” performance — will finally be released this summer. Louis in London, out July 12 via ...

Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans, but his heart belonged to Corona, Queens — where he bought a home in 1943 for $8,000. “You take this neighborhood we live in,” the jazzman told Ebony magazine ...

For the November, 1998 issue of High Times, writer Steve Gelsi investigated Louis Armstrong’s (1901-1971) ties to weed. In honor of Armstrong’s birthday on August 4, we’re republishing the story below ...

Laurence Bergreen paints both a comprehensive and factual summary of the life of Louis Armstrong. He backs up what he says with quotes. Armstrong was a writer. He kept copious notes. The artist bought ...

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