Satchmo SummerFest 2017 will move back to the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Mint (formally known as the Louisiana State Museum's Old U.S. Mint) when it returns, Aug. 4-6.

. “It pops,” he said. “Just the way he played up until the end.” Armstrong is often credited with being the inventor of the jazz solos, Royal said. Before then, there had been more focus on group ...

“Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.” – Louis Armstrong Music already was an integral ...

WASHINGTON — For many, the enduring image of Louis Armstrong comes from his later years, the days of old Satchmo with horn and white handkerchief, smiling and bugging his eyes before another ...

Satchmo Summerfest began the same year and annually coincides with Armstrong’s birthday (Aug. 4, 1901.) The popular festival returns to the Old U.S. Mint building this year after a one-year stint at ...