Terry Teachout’s new biography of Louis Armstrong is stuck in the discophile groove. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for ...

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an ...

Louis Armstrong was arguably the most celebrated performer of the twentieth century. Known around the world for his prodigious talent on the trumpet, his inimitable vocal stylings, and as the foremost ...

If you’re a person of a certain age, a lover of jazz, a fan of outsized personalities, you’re probably familiar with the late Louis Armstrong. He was the great jazz trumpeter and gravel-voiced singer ...

Louis Armstrong's undeniable influence on jazz and popular culture has been the subject of many books, essays, and articles throughout the years, so one wonders will another biography add ...

“I’ve seen everything from a child, coming up,” Louis Armstrong once said. “Nothing I ain’t never seen before.” He wasn’t kidding. In his revelatory 1954 memoir, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, the ...

There’s a great little anecdote in the new Louis Armstrong biography, Pops, written by Terry Teachout, about the trumpeter and his predilection for marijuana. The story reveals the truth that as long ...

If you’re a person of a certain age, a lover of jazz, a fan of outsized personalities, you’re probably familiar with the late Louis Armstrong. He was the great jazz trumpeter and gravel-voiced singer ...

If you’re a person of a certain age, a lover of jazz, a fan of outsized personalities, you’re probably familiar with the late Louis Armstrong. He was the great jazz trumpeter and gravel-voiced singer ...