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The Assunto Brothers and Louis Armstrong: How New Orleans Jazz Pushed Jim Crow’s Envelope
In the 1950s, two talented young brothers rocket from a Bourbon Street bar to Carnegie Hall, eventually recording with one of their childhood heroes - despite the South’s repressive Jim Crow laws.
- by Bethany Ewald Bultman
Satchmo Summerfest 2024
All four stages at the New Orleans Jazz Museum rocked through the weekend - with Sunday’s Jazz Mass and second-line parade celebrating the essence of New Orleans music – and Louis Armstrong’s pivotal role creating it.
-photos by Melanie Cole and Ellis Anderson
What a Wonderful Exhibit: Louis Armstrong’s Life in New Orleans
In this striking new exhibit, the New Orleans Jazz Museum offers a love letter to Louis Armstrong – just in time for Satchmo SummerFest.
– by Doug Brantley