gathered in the downstairs lounge at Studio 54 to talk about some of the songs that are central to the show — and to Louis Armstrong’s unparalleled life and career. These are edited excerpts ...

The revered trumpet player and singer Louis Armstrong defined jazz ... use sound and movement along with some of Armstrong’s most enduring songs to transport audiences from the riverboats ...

The shapeless and meandering new show “A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical” opened ... because there are also a lot of standard songs to be sung, from “Kiss of Fire” and ...

A Wonderful World, the biographical jukebox musical about the legendary jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, is named for Armstrong’s signature song “What A Wonderful World.” ...

This 1956 modern gospel gem easily makes this list of Best Gospel ... The Trouble I’ve Seen Louis Armstrong brought emotion and depth to this powerful spiritual song, written during the period ...

Who could fail to recognize Louis Armstrong? Yet he is something of a ... The score, drawn from songs he performed but (with two exceptions) did not write, makes the case irrefutably already ...

NEW YORK — Louis Daniel Armstrong, variously nicknamed “Satchmo ... want so much as a point of view and, well, lots of songs and music. We still could do with less history and more time ...

lots of songs and music. We still could do with less history and more time with Louis and his band. James Monroe Iglehart as Louis Armstrong and company in “A Wonderful World: The Louis ...

Louis Armstrong is the latest music ... Iglehart blowing on a trumpet before channeling Armstrong's signature growl to sing the musical's title song. Clips are then shown of various moments ...

Louis Armstrong ... another song begins. Some, like “Black and Blue,” contribute meaning and texture; others fill time in a show that already drags. Armstrong repeatedly says jazz is about ...