In July 1922, Louis Armstrong arrived in Chicago from New Orleans and took a taxi straight to the Lincoln Gardens nightclub, where he had a job waiting for him in the band led by his longtime mentor, ...

Tune in for Ted Daniel's musical tribute to the renowned jazz cornetist on Columbia University's jazz radio program on the Columbia University jazz radio program with Ben Young, Monday evening June ...

In MWA Grand Master Mosley’s smooth, enjoyable latest King Oliver mystery (after Every Man a King), the NYPD detective–turned–PI agrees to help California tycoon Anthony Orr retrieve his young ...