FILE -- In a 1970 file photo Louis Armstrong is seen during a recording session in New York. A live recording of Louis Armstrong playing his trumpet for one of the last times is being played Friday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Academy Museum’s Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 is not to be missed. Not only does the exhibition celebrate Black ...

One of Louis Armstrong’s trumpets, custom-made for the jazz legend in 1948 and given to a family friend five years later, will hit the auction block as part of Christie’s the Exceptional Sale. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite the seemingly anachronistic appearance of the fan, the images were authentic. A photographer for the newswire agency ...

Click to open image viewer. This 1946 Henri Selmer B-flat custom-made and inscribed trumpet belonged to Louis Armstrong. Armstrong had been playing an earlier version of a Selmer trumpet since 1932.

Jazz history came full circle last fall as New Orleans’ own Wynton Maralis got the chance to play a trumpet that belonged to one of the city’s original jazz greats: Louis Armstrong. The 1946 Selmer ...

Trumpeter/bandleader Carl Fischer will soon release “T.Ë.T.I.” (Tribute to Evolutionary Trumpet Icons and pronounced “tet-eye”). The first single off the album is “What a Wonderful World,” a tribute ...

WASHINGTON — A live recording of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong playing his trumpet for one of the last times is being released to the public for the first time. On Jan., 29, 1971, Armstrong was a featured ...

Click to open image viewer. This 1946 Henri Selmer B-flat custom-made and inscribed trumpet belonged to Louis Armstrong. Armstrong had been playing an earlier version of a Selmer trumpet since 1932.

WASHINGTON -- A live recording of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong playing his trumpet for one of the last times is being released to the public for the first time. On Jan., 29, 1971, Armstrong was a ...