Jazz grew out of different music styles that became popular at ... and even the music-filled funerals for which the city is known. Louis Armstrong, born in New Orleans in 1901, noted how the ...
Louis Armstrong’s innovative musicianship and incredible charisma as trumpeter and vocalist would lead him from the early days of jazz in his native New Orleans to five decades of international ...
For Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong, even their fame couldn’t fully protect them from the terrifying violence ...
The subtitle of The Jazzmen says a lot about what drew Tye to his subjects: "How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong ... on ...