The multifaceted Wycliffe Gordon — trombonist, trumpeter, sousaphone player, composer and jazz educator — is delighted to be back at Satchmo SummerFest. The New York City- and Lexington, ...

Jonathan Armstrong is a fiercely creative musician, composer and educator living in Los Angeles. His background is a mix of intensive academic training and extensive professional experiences on ...

Following the release of “Pavarotti,” the next music-centric, documentary film from Imagine Documentaries will focus on the life of jazz legend, singer and trumpeter Louis Armstrong, the company’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. New Orleans has many a story to tell. One of ...

Our writer heads to the city where 'jazz came of age', to soak in the history of the genre, as well as join in with ...

Louis Armstrong has been rightly hailed as the most important figure in early jazz for almost as long as Paul Whiteman, once its biggest star, has been denied his due. Under the racially apologist ...

We’re happy to present our annual August “Satchmo SummerFest” issue. It focuses, in large part, on New Orleans’ traditional jazz community and legacy—which, of course, is influenced by the spirit and ...

As we continue to confront the coronavirus pandemic, it's worth remembering that roughly a century ago an influenza pandemic similarly wreaked havoc around the world and swept through the city that ...

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 ...

An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged from the streets of New Orleans. The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis "Satchmo ...