The music began at the notched mouthpiece, twisted past the dents and dings in the shepherd’s crook and emerging from the bell as best as a 12-year-old could play a cornet. Which was probably better ...

A new biography of Louis Armstrong – “Pops,” by Terry Teachout (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 496 pages, $30) – provides context to the Armstrong cornet on display in the Northwest Museum of Arts and ...

Louis Armstrong’s first cornet is on the way to the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. Satchmo played this cornet at the New Orleans Colored Waif’s Home, where he lived as a child. The instrument ...

As local high school marching bands fill the streets with rolling thunder over the next couple of weeks, consider the battered cornet on view at the New Orleans Jazz Museum exhibition “It All Started ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A century after the teenage Louis Armstrong’s first pro gig at a honky-tonk, an exhibit about the jazz singer and trumpeter’s complicated relationship with his hometown is opening ...

This photo is from the Dec. 26, 1913, Times-Democrat. It shows some boys who received toys at the newspaper's first Christmas gift fund distribution for needy black children. "Music was furnished by a ...

It would be difficult to find a better embodiment of the American dream than Louis Armstrong, who was born in 1901 to a single mother in the rough, poverty-stricken Back O’ Town neighborhood near what ...

When speaking of Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby once commented that he was "the beginning and the end of music in America. Though Armstrong didn't single handedly create jazz, he did steer it through ...

Sacha Jenkins’ engrossing and informative documentary “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” reintroduces one of the 20th century’s most towering and beloved cultural icons to a new generation. Born and ...

Advocate staff photo by JOHN McCUSKER -- For the first time, Louis Armstrong artifacts and photographs held by the Louisiana State museum and the Louis Armstrong House in Corona Queens New York will ...

The raspy voice may be instantly recognizable, but the words come as a shock. For Louis Armstrong — whose centennial is being celebrated around the world this weekend — was not supposed to be an angry ...