Marsalis has been the president of the 56-year-old Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation since 2018. He received the ...

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In 1925 the Jazz Age was in full swing. It was the year Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their first recordings.The Phantom of the Opera opened at movie theaters. The Ku Klux Klan marched ...

presented to Duke Ellington National Museum of American History Duke Ellington Orchestra Bandstand Case National Museum of African American History and Culture Transit pass for St. Louis Public ...

There are over 100 pieces of music in Prohibition – from nineteenth century hymns to the Tin Pan Alley songs of Irving Berlin to Jazz greats from Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington ...

Once again, the Festival at Sandpoint saw fit to diss America’s only homegrown high art form. Serious jazz (e.g. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra ...

An elaborate box set from the Danish Storyville label: seven CDs and one DVD, paying tribute to Duke Ellington's arranger and composer Billy Strayhorn that--alas--doesn't quite live up to the ...