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Catherine Russell sang between comedy acts at Catch a Rising Star and made demonstration recordings for songwriters before she established her singing career.

At its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s, the Dew Drop Jazz Hall in Mandeville was to jazz music as recreation is to Lake Pontchartrain, but today, the small structure sits mostly in silence awaiting its next ...

Louis Armstrong International Airport is poised to restart an effort to soundproof nearby homes, despite losing Federal Aviation Administration money for the work.

Eric Weedin has been playing trumpet since the fifth grade, but he discovered it at a Christmas party when he was much younger.

Gov. Bobby Jindal cleared his desk Tuesday of all legislation lawmakers sent him from the recent session, signing into law a bill to set up a state agency to look at transferring control of Louis Armstrong ...

Someone once asked Louis Armstrong if he could describe jazz. He said, 'If you have to ask what it is, you'll never know.' That classic contrast between factual knowledge and intuitive awareness also holds ...

'Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?" sang Miss Billie Holiday , accompanied by Louis Armstrong in a 1947 movie.

HER golden tones captivated a generation of dance hall devotees. Ivy Barnes was the voice of 1940s and 50s Tyneside, a songstress whose voice took her from Newcastle's Oxford Galleries to singing duets with ...

Today is the centennial anniversary of the birth of Louis Jordan. Jordan is the link from the birth of jazz and the big band swing era to rock 'n' roll, from Louis Armstrong to Chuck Berry and Little Richard.

Latin jazz trumpeter Ray Vega and his group will be playing a free concert Tuesday night on the Jazzmobile stage at the Louis Armstrong house.

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has named a new head of federal security at Memphis International Airport.

You can't get your picture taken with a geyser or do a rubbing of moose tracks at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park .

Half a century ago, when America was having problems with its image during the cold war, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the United States representative from Harlem, had an idea.

Via Jezebel : Would Kara Walker agree that her success is "a form of oppression" ? She certainly seems to have anticipated that notion with her work.

If the rhyme book is the blueprint, and the emcee is the architect, then the producer has to be the foundation that any song, or album, is built upon.

A proposal to study the possible transfer of Louis Armstrong International Airport from the city of New Orleans to the state eased out of the Legislature Monday, its future now in the hands of Gov.

Tonight it brings him to Chastain Park Amphitheatre, but for years the sax man has taken hits from critics and fellow musicians who say he lacks jazz artistry.

CHEEKY CAMPAIGN? Jazz trumpet legend Dizzy Gillespie mounted a less-than-serious campaign for president of the United States in 1964.

Published June 22, 2008 at 4:35 p.m. Tags: les paul , discovery world , house of soundiridum , jon paris , tallen latz , sonia hensley Arriving after 1 a.m. Thursday at Mitchell Airport on his flight in from ...

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT $"/> $"/>Galerie Ouest: Exhibition of watercolours & pen & inks by Arthur Sheldon Phillips from June 19 to July 3; a collective of cityscapes, landscapes, seascapes & marine.