The Academy Museum’s Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 is not to be missed. Not only does the exhibition celebrate Black representation in film, it serves as an important reminder and lesson about ...

FILE -- In a 1970 file photo Louis Armstrong is seen during a recording session in New York. A live recording of Louis Armstrong playing his trumpet for one of the last times is being played Friday ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Louis Armstrong is undoubtedly one of the most influential musicians in American history. A towering figure in jazz and popular music, Armstrong’s gravelly voice, impeccable trumpet ...

Trumpeter/bandleader Carl Fischer will soon release “T.Ë.T.I.” (Tribute to Evolutionary Trumpet Icons and pronounced “tet-eye”). The first single off the album is “What a Wonderful World,” a tribute ...

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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 ...

One day years ago, jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was hanging with Willie Nelson and Ray Charles when the two older musicians started to talk about their long and diverse careers. “Ray, you know, you ...