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After separating from Lil, Armstrong started to play at the Sunset Café for Al Capone's associate Joe Glaser in the Carroll Dickerson Orchestra, with Earl Hines on piano, which was renamed Louis Armstrong and his Stompers, though Hines was the music director and Glaser managed the orchestra. Hines and Armstrong became fast friends and ...
Jul 4, 2023 · The Louis Armstrong Center. The Louis Armstong Center will officially open to the public on Thursday, July 6th. Armstrong’s values of Artistic Excellence, Education and Community will be fostered in Here to Stay, a new exhibition curated by Jason Moran that looks at Armstrong’s five-decade career as an innovative musician, rigorous archivist, consummate collaborator and community builder.
Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 4, 1901. He was raised by his mother Mayann in a neighborhood so dangerous it was called “The Battlefield.”. He only had a fifth-grade education, dropping out of school early to go to work. An early job working for the Jewish Karnofsky family allowed Armstrong to make enough money ...
Jul 15, 2023 · Lucille Armstrong offered a statement for the occasion, opening with, “One of the desires of the late Daniel Louis Armstrong was the construction of a cultural center where he could settle down from the arduous toils of his travels to teach his art to the young and underprivileged children of his neighborhood and to see the Center grow in ...
Jun 15, 2023 · The new Center will house the 60,000-piece Louis Armstrong Archive and a performance venue. It’s the largest archive for a jazz musician with 60,000 photos, recordings, manuscripts, letters ...
Nov 16, 2018 · With Lucille Armstrong in the background. When Armstrong died in 1971, his wife, Lucille, ensured that the house they shared in Corona, Queens — the place where he recorded his tapes, made ...
This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park. This center honors jazz musician Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong (1900-1971). He lived in a small Corona home with his wife from 1943 until his death in 1971 ...
