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, ...

Joseph Nathan “King” Oliver’s legacy as a pioneering jazz trumpet and cornet player is being recognized with a new jazz bar in Savannah. A mentor to Louis Armstrong and famous for his use of mutes, ...

The 21-year-old Armstrong, on cornet, was a protégé of New Orleans fellow cornetist and band leader King Joe Oliver. On April 5, 1923, they went into a Richmond, Ind., studio for a two-day session.

The Secret Six Jazz Band is at it again. Barely ten months after the release of their fourth album, Chicken You Can Roost Behind the Moon, clearly the most prolific neo-trad band in New Orleans is ...

In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...

King Oliver's Jazz Band. side 1: Room Rent Blues; side 2: I Ain't Gonna Tell Nobody (Hot Jazz Club of America HC 1). 78 rpm. Both tracks were originally recorded in 1923 and released on Okeh 8148. Hot ...