One day years ago, jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was hanging with Willie Nelson and Ray Charles when the two older musicians started to talk about their long and diverse careers. “Ray, you know, you ...
Louis Armstrong's undeniable influence on jazz and popular culture has been the subject of many books, essays, and articles throughout the years, so one wonders will another biography add ...
In 1967, Louis Armstrong recorded “What a Wonderful World,” a song known around the globe more than five decades later. That world, for Armstrong, started in Chicago. Considered one of the most ...