Just the day after Christmas, thousands arrived in New Orleans, either returning home from holiday travel or coming in for a ...

Wynton Marsalis is on his way to Chandler Center for the Arts with Cecile Licad and an all-star jazz ensemble to perform the score to “Louis,” a silent film telling a mythical tale of a young Louis ...

Since Border Patrol arrived in Louisiana, the Ojos Community Watch Network has hosted daily workshops to teach citizens the do's and dont's when recording agents during Catahoula Crunch.

Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire, and proto-rap group The Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — This year’s Thanksgiving travel period is expected to be the busiest in 15 years. AAA estimates at least 81 million people will travel, including six million by plane. At the ...

Author Ricky Riccardi says Armstrong's innovations as a trumpeter and vocalist helped set the soundtrack of the 20th century. His book is Stomp Off, Let's Go. Originally broadcast Jan. 30, 2025.

Louis Armstrong’s virtuoso talents and charm earned him a singular place on top of the jazz world, as well as international fame and popularity, which can obscure his very humble beginnings. He adored ...

“Stomp Off, Let’s Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong” by Ricky Riccardi, Oxford University Press, 488 pages. Ricky Riccardi, the preeminent Louis Armstrong scholar, has become one of the ...