Musicals based on the lives of Tammy Faye Bakker and Louis Armstrong reveal the difficulty of capturing a famous legacy ...
Louis Daniel Armstrong, variously nicknamed “Satchmo” and “Pops,” is the subject of “A Wonderful World,” a musically rich if ...
James Monroe Iglehart and a stellar ensemble are absolutely mesmerizing in a timely biographical musical about the life and ...
Grammy-winning trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong — who was known as the King of Jazz over the course of his five decades ...
The Louis Armstrong Musical, starring a terrific James Monroe Iglehart ( Aladdin, Hamilton) as the legendary Satchmo, opens ...
The live recordings of The Dukes of Dixieland at The Playboy Jazz Festival can be heard for the first time here. (52) The ...
What’s onstage at Studio 54 is largely a deflating and cobbled-together wife story that fails to capture Armstrong the artist ...
Roy Haynes, a versatile drummer who played with jazz greats including Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker, died Tuesday after ...
A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical ... figure of the great Armstrong. With music from the great American (and Americana) songbook and jazz standards, a more-than-workable book by ...
there are titans in music. These once-in-a-lifetime artists help shift the musical landscape across the globe. The revered trumpet player and singer Louis Armstrong defined jazz for generations.