Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington News

A woman answered the door wearing a simple house dress and an apron. "First I thought, This is the maid," says photographer Herman Leonard.

West Shore Symphony Orchestra will close its 2008-09 season May 29-30 with a tribute to the great American standard, featuring Las Vegas showman Steve Lippia.

Designed both for jazz aficionados and curious visitors, the show charts the 100-year history of jazz through magazines, posters, letters, cartoons, record covers, photographs, films and paintings.

Better known by repute than in person saxist Arthur Doyle is nonetheless a free jazz legend.

When he takes the oath of office, Barack Obama might well be thinking of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington as much as Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sky Arts' new jazz series begins 5.1. WATCH VIDEO CLIP FROM JAZZ: THE GIFT >> Jazz: The Gift explores the evolution and the genius of America's greatest original art form.

Some warm music on a cold night. -- I wasn't even aware of it, but some nunbskull apparently wanted to put up volleyball courts in Lief Erickson Park between Third and Fourth Avenues.