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The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis "Satchmo ... "West End Blues," a famous early jazz tune. In 1929 Armstrong appeared on Broadway ...
Courtesy Continental Production Co. "This is Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong,” the voice resounds, “talking to all the kids from all over the world at Christmastime.” With that, the trumpeter ...
Max Falkenstien, the legendary local radio sports announcer who spent 60 years covering KU football ... they rolled back into Lawrence early the next day. Louis Armstrong in 1959 In the Kansas ...
The New Orleans Jazz Museum will host Grammy Award winner and author Ricky Riccardi, who will be signing his newest book, "Stomp Off, Let's Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong." Mr. Riccardi is ...