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One of the rarest and most authentic compilations of early jazz ever pressed to vinyl. This 1923 session brings together King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Johnny [More]

Porgy and Bess is a studio album by jazz vocalist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong and singer Ella Fitzgerald, released on Verve Records in 1959. The [More]

Personnel: Louis Armstrong – vocals Ed Grady – drums Louis Armstrong, Billy Butterfield – trumpet Lou Mc Garity, Cutty Cutshall – trombone Al Klink, Hyme [More]

“Summertime” is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author [More]

Buddy Bolden’s Band 1905 (Photo Hogan Jazz Archives). Kid Ory’s Woodland Band 1905 (Photo Hogan Jazz Archives). Original Creole Orchestra (Photo Hogan Jazz Archives). Original [More]

“Basin Street Blues” (Spencer Williams) from the Bell Telephone Hour: The American Song, February 2, 1964. Personnel: Louis Armstrong – trumpet, vocals Russell “Big Chief” [More]

The Sunshine Of Love (Chet Gierlach, George Douglas, Leonard Whitcup). from the Louis Armstrong album Hello Louis – The Hit Years (1963-1969). “By 1968, Louis [More]

Louis Armstrong and friends – Esquire Jazz Concert (1944) – Full Show. The first Esquire All-Star Concert, which took place in 1944, has been well [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 revue [More]

A Song Is Born (also known as That’s Life) is a 1948 Technicolor musical film remake of the 1941 movie Ball of Fire with Gary [More]