Draw up a list of some of the top jazz artists of all time, and the legend featured in this recording would likely be at the top of that list. Louis [more]

More than any other jazz musician before or since, Louis Armstrong had a propensity for entertaining that stood him in good stead when it came time for the [more]

These CDs in lithographic tins are unique anthologies of full-length recordings by the original artists. Distinctive, desirable, collectible and [more]

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Evn'n Tide; Hello Dolly; C'est si bon; Swing That Music; When the Saints Go Marching In; Mahogany Hall Stomp; Jeepers [more]

This recording was not only Louis Armstrong's finest record of the 1950s but one of the truly classic jazz sets. Armstrong and his All-Stars [more]

Armstrong and the 1960 version of his All-Stars (which included trombonist Trummy Young, clarinetist Barney Bigard, pianist Billy Kyle, bassist Mort [more]

In conjunction with the release of Ken Burns' ten-part, 19-hour epic PBS documentary {#Jazz}, Columbia issued 22 single-disc compilations devoted to jazz's most significant [more]

Louis Armstrong recorded constantly throughout his storied career, from his sidemen dates with King Oliver's [more]

Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller only worked together twice, briefly in 1925 in Erskine Tate's band and four years later in the New York [more]

While Louis Armstrong didn't invent jazz, he certainly shaped it in his own image, personalizing it, popularizing it, and giving it a template to follow into the modern [more]

Swing That Music; Carolina Shout; Promenade; Be-Bop Bach; Cool Bach; Dixie Bach; Struttin' With Some Barbecue; Sweet Georgia Brown; St. [more]

When 1965-1972 was first released a decade ago, all of the music was being put out for the first time. The 15 selections are from 10 different [more]

This late-period Duke Ellington album is perhaps most notable for including altoist Johnny Hodges' final recordings. In fact, Hodges was supposed to record his first soprano solo [more]