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For decades, Americans have argued over the icon’s legacy. But his archives show that he had his own plans. “I get this question all the time,” Ricky Riccardi admitted. The director of research ...

Private recordings, heard in the new documentary “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues,” add a further dimension to the artist. By Alan Scherstuhl The tapes are thrilling, revelatory, wrenching: the ...

To understand Louis Armstrong's recording career between 1935 and 1946, you have to view the 11-year period as a marketing campaign. Newly divorced from wife Lil at the depth of the Depression, Louis ...

Tony winner James Monroe Iglehart brings story of the King of Jazz to the stage — and PEOPLE has the First Look at him in action Louis Armstrong is the latest music legend to have his life story told ...

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 ...

He answered to "Pops," "Satchmo," and "Louie." But he called himself Louis. Documentary filmmaker Sacha Jenkins and jazz pianist Jason Moran have been immersed in Louis Armstrong's recordings and ...