Stories are told in many different ways, narratives, biographies and even autobiographies. Louis Armstrong left the world with what I would call a tangible autobiography. I believe this set a… Read more
Note to readers: This blog post is a continuation of one uploaded on August 13, 2021 — https://louisarmstrongfellowsblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/13/meditations-on-popular-music-exhibitions/. The two blogs posts should be read as one piece, not two… Read more
In July I explored the Museum of the City of New York’s exhibition New York, New Music: 1980-1986. En route to the museum, I wondered whether its exhibition would be… Read more
Here’s the update: I, along with my fellow Fellow Maglyn Bertrand, have been working with the Louis Armstrong House Museum and Archives for eleven months now. We’ve almost made a… Read more
On September 25, 2020, I authored my first blog post for this webpage. In that initial post, I drew attention to the sounds of Armstrong’s den, his personal archive, and… Read more
In 1958 an article about Louis Armstrong entitled “He Tapes It All!” appeared in an issue of Hi-Fi at Home, an American magazine publication “targeted at the growing audience for… Read more
Telling Louis Armstrong’s life story featuring the voices of women he encountered during his journey was a goal that Fellow Maglyn Bertrand and I were assigned during the Fall. I… Read more
In 1957, Armstrong and the All Stars went on a goodwill tour of several South American countries including Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, and Venezuela. After landing at Buenos Aires’ airport,… Read more
“It’s sadly easy to reverse meaning, in fact, to tell a lie, by offering an accurate but incomplete quote,”1 said author Octavia Butler in an Essence article in 2000. After… Read more
I would like to think that if I had lived during Louis Armstrong’s time and had the opportunity to meet him, I would know how to act and what to… Read more
