Louis Armstrong’s house
Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901. He and his wife Lucille bought this house in Corona, Queens, in 1943. It was Armstrong’s home for the rest of his life.
Louis Armstrong’s legacy
Ethan Iverson on Louis Armstrong’s legacy.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
Louis Armstrong in a Queens barbershop, 1965.
After Louis Armstrong’s birthday
Better late than never: here’s one of my favorite later Armstrong performances: “Azalea,” recorded on April 4, 1961. It’s a Duke Ellington composition, which Ellington wrote years before with Armstrong in mind.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
Louis Armstrong signing autographs for neighborhood kids, 1965.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
A 1938 photograph.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
A photograph and a comment on his neighborhood in Queens.
Louis Armstrong, digitized
Writings, recordings, artifacts , now available in digital form at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
He loved Guy Lombardo.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
A photograph.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
I think of Armstrong as a bodhisattva showing us all the way to enlightenment.
A belated Louis Armstrong post
Louis Armstrong‘s draft card.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
A 1965 photograph.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
A Gordon Parks photograph.
A musical analogy
“Kokomo” : The Beach Boys :: “What a Wonderful World” : Louis Armstrong.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
Armstrong lives.
On Louis Armstrong's birthday
Great 1965 photograph by John Loengard
A Louis Armstrong Christmas
Reading "A Visit from Saint Nicholas"
Louis Armstrong's advice
From the old to the young
Armstrong and Arlen, blues and weather
"West End Blues": the source for the opening phrase of "Stormy Weather"?
"Self-Reliance" and jazz
Emerson and improvisation
Louis Armstrong, collagist
A sample of Armstrong's reel-to-reel box collages
Invisible man: Louis Armstrong and the New York Times
The NY Times' early coverage of Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash?
Yes, doing "Blue Yodel No. 9"
The day Louis Armstrong made noise
Louis Armstrong on color and American culture