Though a team led by Branford Marsalis and Daryl Waters has written hot arrangements and rich orchestrations for a nine-person band, including the great Alphonso Horne on lead trumpet, the program of ...
The great jazz trumpeter and sandpaper vocalist gets the old jukebox treatment in a new Broadway musical starring James Monroe Iglehart. By Jesse Green By exploring Armstrong’s offstage struggles and ...
Sometimes when I’m feeling a little gloomy about things, I take a moment to listen to the Louis Armstrong classic song, “What ...
Birth of the All Stars -- Europe, 1948 -- King of the Zulus, 1949 -- Decca days, 1950-1951 -- Personnel changes, 1951-1952 -- The King of Jazz meets the King of Swing, 1953 -- A brush with the law, ...