The music began at the notched mouthpiece, twisted past the dents and dings in the shepherd’s crook and emerging from the bell as best as a 12-year-old could play a cornet. Which was probably better ...
If you’re visiting the Satchmo Summerfest taking place this weekend at the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint, step inside for a look at Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong’s cornet. The piece of ...
As local high school marching bands fill the streets with rolling thunder over the next couple of weeks, consider the battered cornet on view at the New Orleans Jazz Museum exhibition “It All Started ...
On view is the cornet on which Louis Armstrong, the founding father of jazz, learned to play. Armstrong was given lessons on this cornet at the age of 11 while in residence at the New Orleans Colored ...
Lil Hardin was already an accomplished, in-demand musician here in Chicago when she met young cornet phenom Louis Armstrong, who had just moved here from New Orleans. It was at the home she owned on ...
This is FRESH AIR. One hundred years ago today, Louis Armstrong wrapped up his first recording session. The 21-year-old Armstrong on cornet was a protege of New Orleans fellow cornetist and bandleader ...
Advocate staff photo by JOHN McCUSKER -- For the first time, Louis Armstrong artifacts and photographs held by the Louisiana State museum and the Louis Armstrong House in Corona Queens New York will ...
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