Louis Armstrong

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Jazz icon Louis Armstrong didn't just leave behind a cache of musical recordings — he documented hundreds of his private conversations on tape. Read More

Not long before he died in 1971, Louis Armstrong wrote to a friend, "Life was there for me and I accepted it. And life, whatever came out, has been beautiful to me, and I love everybody." Read More

The tape recorder was meant to be for music, but eventually Armstrong left it on all the time, recording "dinner parties, getting high in the dressing room after a gig, trying to get his wife into bed," Teachout says. Read More

Most people know Terry Teachout from his theatre criticism at The Wall Street Journal and essays at Commentary , but the writer actually began his career in the arts as a professional jazz musician. Read More

Ted Jackson/The Times-Picayune archive Rep. Jim Fannin wants to know what return the state will get on its investment. Read More

Louis Armstrong , "Dinah," filmed on a sound stage in Denmark, 1933: a very early item in his filmography. Read More

Louis Armstrong a k a Satchmo a k a Pops was to music what Picasso was to painting, what Joyce was to fiction: an innovator who changed the face of his art form, a fecund and endlessly inventive pioneer whose discovery of his own voice helped remake 20th-century culture. Read More

Passenger levels were up nearly 9 percent at Louisiana's largest commercial airport last month, with concert-goers, conventioners and football fans helping provide the boost. Read More

Passenger levels were up nearly 9 percent at Louisiana's largest commercial airport last month, with concert-goers, conventioners and football fans helping provide the boost. Read More