Louis Armstrong has been rightly hailed as the most important figure in early jazz for almost as long as Paul Whiteman, once its biggest star, has been denied his due. Under the racially apologist ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) —The story of modern music and jazz is sizable one. The National World War II Museum has a new live music tribute that honors the influence of New Orleans’ jazz and the legacy of ...

On Oct. 12, 2023, a night filled with the sweet sounds of jazz and the magic of storytelling, the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago played host to A Wonderful World, a production that masterfully ...

The sound that would come to be called “Dixieland” developed from the jazz music of early 20th-century New Orleans, epitomized by figures like Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton. But it didn’t get ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. New Orleans has many a story to tell. One of ...

An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged from the streets of New Orleans. The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis "Satchmo ...

The 25th annual Satchmo SummerFest, a two-day celebration honoring New Orleans jazz legend Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, kicks off Saturday, Aug. 2 at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. The event will feature ...

The inaugural 1959 Playboy Jazz Festival in Chicago was headlined by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and the Dukes of Dixieland, among others. It was the largest indoor jazz festival ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — “It All Started in Jane Alley: Louis Armstrong in New Orleans” is an exhibition on showcase at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. It begins just in time for the annual Summer Satchmo ...