Louis Armstrong

Izzy's life imitated his art

The narrative arc of Israel Asper's life was music, specifically modern jazz. Its high-octane energy and existential currents provided his life force from which everything flowed. I was the first to link his bizarre work habits...

Playlist: Robert Wyatt

The beloved eccentric and progressive jazz musician explains what Stevie Wonder does to his heart and what Benjamin Britten does to his head Robert Wyatt ... 'I can do a more testosterone-y male voice but, to be honest, I can't...

Tacoma’s treasured old buildings are built to last

Michael Sullivan has this theory about historic old buildings: They’re not just mute collections of wood and glass and brick and steel; they’re storehouses of memories. As such, they’re worth protecting and saving.

Removal of sycamore trees clouds Audubon Park recovery

12:27 PM CST on Sunday, November 16, 2008 Scott Satchfield / Eyewitness News Like so many other New Orleans landmarks, Louis Armstrong Park has seen better days. "This park's undergone two hurricanes and a flood, and the park...

Katherine Russell... - Saratoga Springs, NY

Doors open a 1/2 hour before showtime. Please do not arrive any earlier. We need private time for set-up and soundcheck. Her father was Louis Armstrong's music director and a noted bandleader in his own right; her mother was a...

Will Obama bring jazz back to the White House?

If President-elect Barack Obama wants to make a bold cultural statement—one that resonates deeply with his autobiography and with the legacy of his adopted hometown, Chicago—there's a compelling way to do it: Teach the White...

Louis Armstrong New Orleans Nights MP3 Album download for $1 [dealmac - 20 most recent deals.]

Site/blog: dealmac - 20 most recent deals. Article: Today only, the Amazon MP3 Store offers downloads of Louis Armstrongs New Orleans Nights for 99 cents. (Click Buy the MP3 album for $0.99.) Thats the lowest total price we...

Chris Searle - Forward Groove: Jazz and the real world from Louis Armstrong to Gilad Atzmon

Atzmon dedicates his album Musik/Re-arranging the 20th Century with this pregnant sentence: ‘Sooner rather than later musik will free itself and so will the Palestinian people.’ Musik: even the word is a hybrid; emblematic of...

For your ears only

The James Bonds may have changed over the course of 46 years (from Sean Connery to George Lazenby, back to Connery, then to Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig), but the venerable 007 film series has...

Arve Henriksen, Cartography

David Sylvian Released: 10 November 2008 Catalogue number: 1780116 If you're unfamiliar with the Norwegian trumpeter's solo work, you may have encountered him on one of the many projects he's contributed to including David...

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