In the 1920s, when jazz was first born, it was firmly cemented in youth culture. Alongside speakeasies, short haircuts and ...

Musicals based on the lives of Tammy Faye Bakker and Louis Armstrong reveal the difficulty of capturing a famous legacy ...

The live recordings of The Dukes of Dixieland at The Playboy Jazz Festival can be heard for the first time here. (52) The ...

On Sunday's Tree of Jazz we'll celebrate the jazz legends Lou Donaldson and Roy Haynes who passed away this week; and one of ...

Hosting a holiday event that reflects African American culture can make the gathering feel even more special and meaningful.

Louis Daniel Armstrong, variously nicknamed “Satchmo” and “Pops,” is the subject of “A Wonderful World,” a musically rich if ...

Jones unloads his back pocket of phone numbers of LA’s and probably the world’s most talented musicians. Songwriters included ...

Roy Haynes, a versatile drummer who played with jazz greats including Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker, died Tuesday after ...

James Monroe Iglehart and a stellar ensemble are absolutely mesmerizing in a timely biographical musical about the life and ...

The Louis Armstrong Musical, starring a terrific James Monroe Iglehart ( Aladdin, Hamilton) as the legendary Satchmo, opens ...

What’s onstage at Studio 54 is largely a deflating and cobbled-together wife story that fails to capture Armstrong the artist ...

Grammy-winning trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong — who was known as the King of Jazz over the course of his five decades ...