It has been an extraordinarily good season for jazz books. Terry Teachout’s Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong and Robin Kelley’s Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original provide ...
To Columbia's inspired producer of Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy, Louis told George Avakian, I can't remember when I felt as good about making a record. Late in his life a new generation was ...
Louis Daniel Armstrong ( – ), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an ...
WESA: 'Pops Is Tops' Showcases Louis Armstrong's Rough Voice, Perfect Timing And Wit
'Pops Is Tops' Showcases Louis Armstrong's Rough Voice, Perfect Timing And Wit
NPR: Fresh Air Weekend: Louis Armstrong as the first Black pop star; America's loneliness epidemic
Fresh Air Weekend: Louis Armstrong as the first Black pop star; America's loneliness epidemic
“Stomp Off, Let’s Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong” by Ricky Riccardi, Oxford University Press, 488 pages. Ricky Riccardi, the preeminent Louis Armstrong scholar, has become one of the ...
Author Ricky Riccardi says Armstrong's innovations as a trumpeter and vocalist helped set the entire soundtrack of the 20th century. His new book about Armstrong's early life is Stomp Off, Let's Go.
KUOW: Fresh Air Weekend: Louis Armstrong as the first Black pop star; America's loneliness epidemic
More than 50 years after his passing, the sound of Louis Armstrong’s trumpet and his gravelly, warm voice still echoes throughout Corona. At the Louis Armstrong Center, directly across from his ...