Louis Armstrong News

As if putting up with one set of reviews in a single year hadn't been enough, I'm now in the process of finding out what my colleagues think of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong .

Louis Armstrong enjoyed a charmed and charming life. His recordings from the 1920s changed the course of jazz, setting in place a heroic conception of the soloist that continues to reverberate in the music today.

North Elementary School teacher Patty Bays dishes up some New Orleans style jambalaya Friday for her students who have been studying the Southern city.

FAA computer glitch originating in Atlanta delaying flights across U.S., but few effects seen so far in N.O. November 19, 2009, 7:37AM AP Photo An AirTran Airways flight departs Logan International Airport in Boston in 2007.

Gary Giddins and Scott DeVeaux's Jazz is a new guide for both novice listeners and longtime fans.

New Orleans in the early part of the 20th century - the setting of Disney's animated "The Princess and the Frog" - is territory that composer Randy Newman has trod before.

Louis Armstrong is seen in Paris in this 1934 file photo. Louis Armstrong's first cornet is on the way to the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.

KENNER, La. a ' Officials broke ground Nov. 2 on a $10 million Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting Facility at Louis Armstrong International Airport.

Read the latest scribblings from Oliver Cross. Let me eat cake At this time of year, with the days shortening and Christmas approaching, I like to change the subject.

NEW Year's Eve, 1912. Eleven-year-old Louis Armstrong and his posse of four friends were strolling along the crowds of Rampart Street in New Orleans when a thug started shooting at them with a cap gun.

Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong just got a rave from Shelf Awareness: Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade , an influential e-mail industry newsletter: An exhilarating biography of an American original that also charts the way the U.S. and popular entertainment changed from 1921 to 1971.... With wit, authoritative musical knowledge and solid ...

Growing up in the mid-1960s, British writer-director Richard Curtis didn't have much choice in music around his house.

Burly, bearded Zac Brown and his band play Sunset Cove Amphitheatre on Saturday .

As Mayor Ray Nagin on Monday proudly unveiled a proposal to transform the shuttered Municipal Auditorium into a cutting-edge performance and production complex showcasing the music of New Orleans, there was no reaction to the ambitious plan from City Council members, who must sign off on the deal.

An illustration by Jim Flora, whose portraits of jazz giants graced record sleeves and ephemera throughout the 1940s and 1950s Photo: The Estate of James Flora; see JimFlora.com Recorded jazz is still under a century old, but in a little over nine decades an enormous quantity of music has amassed.

Carriers did not want aircraft sitting around overnight when conditions could deteriorate because of Ida Monday, November 9, 2009 Tropical Storm Ida is prompting some flight cancellations at the New Orleans airport.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is sending me on a coast-to-coast tour in support of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong .

American Airlines has annonced it will cancel its early morning flights on Tuesday out of Louis Armstrong International Airport due to Tropical Storm Ida.

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.