Musicals based on the lives of Tammy Faye Bakker and Louis Armstrong reveal the difficulty of capturing a famous legacy ...
The performer’s latest assignment would seem to pose an even greater challenge: In “A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong ... World,” the late jazz giant comes across as puzzlingly smaller than ...
The subtitle of The Jazzmen says a lot about what drew Tye to his subjects: "How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong ... on ...
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 ...
Roy Haynes, a versatile drummer who played with jazz greats including Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker, died Tuesday after ...