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Armstrong Center Offers New Understanding of ‘Pops’
On July 6, the hottest day in recorded history, a new institution devoted to the man who gave the world “hot” jazz…
Pops at home in Corona, Queens.
Dec 27, 2023 1:00 PM
On July 6, the hottest day in recorded history, a new institution devoted to the man who gave the world “hot” jazz…
Kenny Garrett’s Sounds From The Ancestors is among DownBeat’s latest crop of 5-star reviews.
Dec 28, 2021 12:49 PM
Welcome to DownBeat’s best-reviewed albums of 2021. Below you’ll find the 5-star recordings, both new and…
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Apr 6, 2021 11:37 AM
What’s streaming this week? Try Chris Potter and Craig Taborn, Alligator Records at 50, Bob James and Paul Howard,…
Jack Bradley photographed many jazz stars. Louis Armstrong was his favorite.
Apr 6, 2021 12:59 PM
Jack Bradley — photographer, sailor and associate of Louis Armstrong — passed away in March in Brewster,…
Before she staked her claim on the Central Avenue jazz scene in Los Angeles, trumpeter Clora Bryant was a featured soloist in the International Sweethearts of Rhythm.
Feb 24, 2020 10:16 AM
Clora Bryant, a fiery trumpet player who broke gender barriers with her horn, swung with the Louis Armstrong and Dizzy…
For Wynton Marsalis, developing a strategy to translate mythology into music for the film Bolden required some self-analysis, if not soul-searching.
May 3, 2019 11:13 PM
Shrouded in mystery, Buddy Bolden’s life has proved more than a match for most of its would-be chroniclers.…
On June 29, the Impulse! label issued previously unreleased studio recordings by John Coltrane (left), Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison and McCoy Tyner under the title Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album.
Jan 4, 2019 12:27 PM
During 2018, DownBeat published hundreds of articles and album reviews. What’s below, though, are some features and…
Photographer Jack Bradley captured intimate moments of Louis Armstrong’s life between 1959 and 1971, the year of his death. Here, Armstrong (left) laughs with Miles Davis.
Dec 3, 2018 3:29 PM
For about two years, the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, New York, has been translating thousands of physical…
Ricky Riccardi (left) is an Armstrong scholar and archivist at Queens College. The trumpeter released the single “What A Wonderful World” in 1967.
Oct 4, 2017 12:16 PM
The Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, New York, marks the 50th anniversary of the trumpeter’s enduring hit…
Jon Batiste & Stay Human lead a second line through the crowd during the 2017 Louis Armstrong’s Wonderful World Festival at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on July 8 in New York City.
Jul 20, 2017 2:44 PM
In 1943, before the phenomenon of bebop held the jazz world in thrall, Louis Armstrong remained one of the music’s…
Louis Armstrong
Aug 18, 2020 1:27 PM
A new trove of previously unreleased Louis Armstrong recordings will see the light of day thanks to a licensing…
Ella Fitzgerald is one of the classic jazz artists whose albums will be reissued by Verve in 2016.
Aug 21, 2019 11:43 AM
Verve Records will celebrate its 60th anniversary throughout 2016 with a series of historic reissues and new…
