FILE -- In a 1970 file photo Louis Armstrong is seen during a recording session in New York. A live recording of Louis Armstrong playing his trumpet for one of the last times is being played Friday ...

The Academy Museum’s Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 is not to be missed. Not only does the exhibition celebrate Black representation in film, it serves as an important reminder and lesson about ...

Two photos circulating on social media for years authentically showed jazz legend Louis Armstrong drawing a trumpet on a fan's head in France. Despite the seemingly anachronistic appearance of the fan ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A live recording of Louis Armstrong playing his trumpet for one of the last times is being released to the public for the first time. The recording is being played Friday at the ...

One of the greatest artists of the last century is having a little revival. Louis Armstrong — the gravely voiced singer and maestro of the trumpet — has a new album topping the charts now, more than ...

Trumpeter/bandleader Carl Fischer will soon release “T.Ë.T.I.” (Tribute to Evolutionary Trumpet Icons and pronounced “tet-eye”). The first single off the album is “What a Wonderful World,” a tribute ...

On his Bronzeville cultural excursions that lead beyond the usual tracks, tour guide and historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas typically pulls up his Chicago Mahogany Tours bus outside a townhouse at 421 ...