An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged from the streets of New Orleans. The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis "Satchmo ...

“When the times comes for me to head for the pearly gates, I’ll play a duet with Gabriel – maybe it’ll be ‘Sleepy Time Down South’ or maybe ‘Hello, Dolly'” – Satchmo. Louis Armstrong, the jazzman ...

Louis Armstrong died in his sleep on July 6, 1971, of a heart attack at his home in the Corona section of Queens, New York. He had observed his 71st birthday two days prior on July 4. Tributes poured ...

Announcer: The King was dead. That's what they said when Louis Armstrong died. The great jazz trumpeter passed away two days after his 71st birthday on July 4th. (Editorial correction: Armstrong was ...

"An all-American institution" is how Dick Cavett introduces Louis Armstrong on a episode of Cavett’s ABC talk show, aired just months before Satchmo’s death 45 years ago today. It’s obvious that ...

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 ...

On July 6, 1971, Louis Armstrong died at his home in Queens, New York, ending one of the most influential careers in music. For many, his legacy lives through recordings such as What a Wonderful ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on July 10,1971 . This story was written by Anthony Burton.) They buried Louis Armstrong yesterday in the shade of a handsome birch tree amidst the same sort of ...

Debra Rogers Grinage remembers it like it was yesterday. She and her sister, Robyn Rogers Edwards, and a group of other kids from the neighborhood, were listening to jazz legend Louis Armstrong sing ...

At the Louis Armstrong House Museum in New York, tour guide Hyland Harris sometimes seems to channel the bigger-than-life jazz musician who lived here for decades with wife Lucille. Harris tells how ...