Though a team led by Branford Marsalis and Daryl Waters has written hot arrangements and rich orchestrations for a nine-person band, including the great Alphonso Horne on lead trumpet, the program of ...
A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical made history yesterday when cast member James T. Lane performed “What a Wonderful World” at halftime at the New York Knicks home game on Monday, January ...
Birth of the All Stars -- Europe, 1948 -- King of the Zulus, 1949 -- Decca days, 1950-1951 -- Personnel changes, 1951-1952 -- The King of Jazz meets the King of Swing, 1953 -- A brush with the law, ...
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 ...