It’s unusual to complain that a book should be longer than it is — authors typically give readers too much rather than too little — and that’s especially true if the book is merely one volume of a ...

Terry Teachout’s new biography of Louis Armstrong is stuck in the discophile groove. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for ...

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an ...

Louis Armstrong was arguably the most celebrated performer of the twentieth century. Known around the world for his prodigious talent on the trumpet, his inimitable vocal stylings, and as the foremost ...

If you’re a person of a certain age, a lover of jazz, a fan of outsized personalities, you’re probably familiar with the late Louis Armstrong. He was the great jazz trumpeter and gravel-voiced singer ...

There’s a great little anecdote in the new Louis Armstrong biography, Pops, written by Terry Teachout, about the trumpeter and his predilection for marijuana. The story reveals the truth that as long ...

For the November, 1998 issue of High Times, writer Steve Gelsi investigated Louis Armstrong’s (1901-1971) ties to weed. In honor of Armstrong’s birthday on August 4, we’re republishing the story below ...

The great jazz trumpeter and sandpaper vocalist gets the old jukebox treatment in a new Broadway musical starring James Monroe Iglehart. By Jesse Green By exploring Armstrong’s offstage struggles and ...