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Marsalis has been the president of the 56-year-old Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation since 2018. He received the ...
The president doesn’t have the authority to impose tariffs on movies produced abroad, but he still wants to be the right’s ...
“I’m all Armstrong, all the time!” is how Ricky Riccardi neatly describes his obsession to me, on a call from his home in New York. Having first discovered Louis ... World War I, the Spanish flu ...
Inspired by Monica Miller’s book “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity,” the exhibit ...
Tom Brown’s Jazz Fest plan was simple. He was going to find a roost in the WWOZ Jazz Tent and listen. He didn’t study the ...
From Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston to Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong ... Because of fabric rations during World War II, owning a zoot suit, with its excessive use of fabric, was ...
Like Queen Elizabeth, she loves horses and a great tiara moment. Prince Louis knew exactly how to get his father Prince William's attention during the ... the end of World War II in Europe.
During World War II he played with an Army band in Europe ... His last recording was “For Louis,” his tribute to Louis Armstrong, done in 1999 right before his death. Paul Desmond: Samba with Some ...