Like any other industry, there are titans in music. These once-in-a-lifetime artists help shift the musical landscape across ...
Louis Armstrong’s famous songs sound great in a new Broadway show, even if the story of his life and illustration of his ...
The great jazz trumpeter and sandpaper vocalist gets the old jukebox treatment in a new Broadway musical starring James ...
NEW YORK — Louis Daniel Armstrong, variously nicknamed “Satchmo” and “Pops,” is the subject of “A Wonderful World,” a musically rich if wordy and information-heavy Broadway show that serves as a ...
A new bio musical gets lost in the many marriages of jazz great Louis Armstrong, played here by James Monroe Iglehart.
Rickey Tripp’s exhilarating choreography and a raft of impressive design elements suggest that the show could be spectacular if only Armstrong were more active. Instead, he’s led around by his wives, ...
James Monroe Iglehart does a fine job embodying Louis Armstrong in a show that’s anything but improvisational.
What’s onstage at Studio 54 is largely a deflating and cobbled-together wife story that fails to capture Armstrong the artist ...
Grammy-winning trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong — who was known as the King of Jazz over the course of his five decades ...
On Friday night, the latest show in Firehouse 12's fall concert series featured a journey through the American music of the ...
Jones would go on to arrange music for Frank Sinatra, childhood friend Ray Charles and jazz greats Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah ...