Last updated at 6:50 AM on 10th February 2012 Daily Mail Now, fourteen years after his death, Mr Harris' work is being lauded in a retrospective exhibit, featuring rarely-seen images of Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughan, Louis Armstrong and other enduring names. Curators at the Carnegie Museum of Art narrowed his ...
Louis Armstrong: The Times-Picayune covers 175 years of New Orleans history NOLA.com By Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, the consensus greatest jazz musician of all time and one of the 20th century's most popular entertainers, was born to humble means in New Orleans. He generally claimed July 4, 1900, ...
Armstrong House Museum gears up for Black History Month New York Daily News By Joe Parziale / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Jazz great Louis Armstrong entertains neighborhood children on the front porch of his home in Corona, Queens. The Louis Armstrong House Museum, at 34-56 107th St. in Corona, Queens. Louis Armstrong shows one of his ...
Tony Bennett Paints Louis Armstrong For Charity Look To The Stars In 1970, the great vocalist Tony Bennett created a beautiful oil portrait of one of his musical heroes, Louis Armstrong. He presented it to Louis personally, and Louis replied, “Man, you out-Rembrandted Rembrandt!” Today, Bennett's portrait still hangs ...
Europe's cold snap seen through the amateur eye The Observers As Louis Armstrong once crooned, baby, it's cold outside. With Europe in the grip of a bitter cold snap, meteorologists have predicted below freezing temperatures over the weekend in several major cities across the continent. One might think the wintry ...
Louis Prima: The Times-Picayune covers 175 years of New Orleans history NOLA.com By Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune Louis Prima was the Italian-American Louis Armstrong, a larger-than-life trumpeter, vocalist, composer and entertainer whose outsized personality and antics sometimes overshadowed his formidable musical chops.
Palm Beach Pops, soloists deliver dazzling tribute to Satchmo Palm Beach Daily News Wonderful World: A Salute to Louis Armstrong offered a sampler of musical contributions made by this country during the past century — jazz, show tunes, film scores and the music of the Great American Songbook, among others — with a dash of opera ...
