It’s unusual to complain that a book should be longer than it is — authors typically give readers too much rather than too little — and that’s especially true if the book is merely one volume of a ...

Louis Armstrong jukebox biomusical A Wonderful World plays its final performance at Broadway's Studio 54 February 23, capping off a run of 151 performances and 31 previews. The production began ...

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an ...

Terry Teachout’s new biography of Louis Armstrong is stuck in the discophile groove. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for ...

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“I’ve seen everything from a child, coming up,” Louis Armstrong once said. “Nothing I ain’t never seen before.” He wasn’t kidding. In his revelatory 1954 memoir, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, the ...

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The great jazz trumpeter and sandpaper vocalist gets the old jukebox treatment in a new Broadway musical starring James Monroe Iglehart. By Jesse Green By exploring Armstrong’s offstage struggles and ...