He answered to "Pops," "Satchmo," and "Louie." But he called himself Louis. Documentary filmmaker Sacha Jenkins and jazz pianist Jason Moran have been immersed in Louis Armstrong's recordings and ...

Tracy Morgan has previously expressed interested in playing late jazz legend Louis Armstrong in a biopic Tracy Morgan is keen on portraying Louis Armstrong in a biopic, according to the actor's Coming ...

One of Louis Armstrong’s trumpets, custom-made for the jazz legend in 1948 and given to a family friend five years later, will hit the auction block as part of Christie’s the Exceptional Sale. The ...

A version of this story about “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” first appeared in the Guild & Critics Awards/Documentaries issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. Louis Armstrong was a titan of American ...

Sophisticated artist or folk musician? Virtuoso or clown? The debate about Louis Armstrong raged in living rooms across mid-20th-century America. Did the jazz master’s eye-rolling antics—his ...

Sacha Jenkins' doc asks us to think a little harder about what Armstrong meant in the context of both music and U.S. history. By John DeFore Would it be possible to make a comprehensive film about ...

A CD set from Mosaic, full of singles and albums made between '46 and '66, confirms the variety of Armstrong's studio sides — and shows how much work went into making them sound casual. This is FRESH ...

Trumpeter and band leader Louis Armstrong announced his arrival in Baltimore by giving away 300 bags of coal in a poor black neighborhood. He offered the coal to those who appeared at the Royal ...

CBS News correspondent, Steve Hartman, hosted a recurring feature from 1998-2004 entitled “Everybody Has a Story.” in which a dart was thrown at a map of the United States and Hartman would follow the ...

For nearly 30 years, world-renowned jazz musician Louis Armstrong and his wife, Lucille, lived quietly in a small, two-story house in Corona, Queens. His professional life featured performances for ...