Louis Armstrong News

Presumably everyone knows that Louis Armstrong 's greatest and most important work was done in the '20s with and around the time of the incredible Hot Five and Hot Seven sessions.

In 1986 LILLIAN was honoured by her city with the official title of 'Musical Ambassador' which had not been bestowed on a New Orleans musician since the world famous Louis Armstrong.

Jennie DeVoe will perform tonight at 4620 Reinvented in Knoxville's Bearden neighborhood.

Nov. 5 Once upon a time it seemed that New Orleans trumpeter Nicholas Payton was the reincarnation of Louis Armstrong , with his bright virtuosic phrases and Big Easy swing.

A DNA test of the new US fragrant rice strain known as Jazzman shows it is developed from a Chinese strain and is inferior to Thai Hom Mali fragrant rice when cooked, Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Theera Wongsamut says.

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Photographer Roy DeCarava , whose black-and-white images captured Harlem's everyday life and jazz greats who performed there, has died.His daughter, Susan DeCarava, says he died Tuesday of natural causes.

"Look, a new day has begun." With those words from the show's best-loved song, "Memory," Grizabella the Glamour Cat, and all of her jumping Jellicle colleagues, brought the touring Broadway spectacle back to New Orleans for the first time in what seems to have been now and forever.

Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues >> Posted By Progressive 11 hours, 31 minutes ago in Arts & Entertainment THE EMPRES OF THE BLUES - Bessie Smith was an American blues singer.

SOURCE: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman Author, photographer and radio host Dennis Owsley will teach another series of jazz history classes beginning at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, November 5 at the Ethical Society of St.

Kudos to our Conductor Ron Spigelman and the Springfield Symphony Orchestra! A ticket to any of this symphony's performances provides one with a memorable evening of culture and wonderful entertainment.

Forget Method acting, forget in-depth role research, forget any of that fancy-dancy stuff they teach you in acting school.

WYNTON MARSALIS: The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note.

IN SYNC: Caitlin Andrews, 14, practises the piano accompanied by Victoria Ereckson, 18, Angela Smith, 16, Penny Barnsdale, 14, Michelle Cook, 17, DJ Jameson, 18, Kelsi Hayes, 17, Fiona Sasse, 17, Penny Ronald, 15, and Krista Richardson, 14, in preparation for the Southland Secondary Schools Jazz Festival.

Frontier Airlines will return to the Louis Armstrong International Airport next year for the first time since Hurricane Katrina, offering a daily service to Denver beginning June 15.

Andrew Stockdale is the front man of the upstart rock band Wolfmother. Industry insiders have favorably compared the Australian native on a vocal level with rock 'n' roll legends such as Robert Plant and Ozzy Osbourne .

Frontier Airlines today announced it will begin daily nonstop service from its hub at Denver International Airport to both Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and Louisville International Airport .

From Worldwide Faith News Date Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:10:41 -0700 ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW BEGINS APOSTOLIC AND PATRIARCHAL VISIT TO THE U.S. NEW ORLEANS ? His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew arrived today in New Orleans, as he begins a 15-day Apostolic and Patriarchal Visit to the United States.

The sounds of New Orleans jazz permeated Pickard Auditorium Tuesday evening and signified the kick off of the 70th year of the Selma Community Concert Association.

Tina Fabrique covers Ella Fitzgerald's life from nervous teenager to world-renowned star in Pittsburgh Public Theater's "Ella." As Ron Haynes plays the muscular opening notes on his trumpet, the biomusical "Ella" transports us to the magical jazz age of Louis Armstrong and the teenage girl who grew up to be the First Lady of Song.