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 ...

The more you listen to young Louis Armstrong, the more you hear. The more you hear, the more you realize the extent to which jazz evolved from his intelligence, imagination, daring and sense of form.

American jazz, for all intents and purposes, began with the innovative, legendary 1920s trumpet solos of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong. (Even Armstrong's inimitable scat singing became much imitated.) ...

They are 12 seconds that changed the course of jazz—the opening of Louis Armstrong’s 1928 trumpet solo on “West End Blues.” Its strutting four-note beginning leads to a flashy climax before ebbing ...

It may be too easy to take Louis Armstrong for granted. After all, he is one of the greatest musicians of the Twentieth Century. Perhaps we all conclude that we understand why. Then, along comes yet ...

SAN DIEGO – Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire and proto-rap group the Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning ...