Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, as well as new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, ...

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Bastards from the start : apprenticeship in New Orleans, 1901-1919 -- All those tall buildings : leaving home, 1919-1924 -- A flying cat : Harlem and Chicago, 1924-1927 -- It's got to be art : with ...

NEW YORK — Louis Daniel Armstrong, variously nicknamed “Satchmo” and “Pops,” is the subject of “A Wonderful World,” a musically rich if wordy and information-heavy Broadway show that serves as a ...

Louis Daniel Armstrong, variously nicknamed “Satchmo” and “Pops,” is the subject of “A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical,” a musically rich if wordy and info-heavy Broadway show that serves ...

To Columbia's inspired producer of Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy, Louis told George Avakian, I can't remember when I felt as good about making a record. Late in his life a new generation was ...

Sam Irwin, the author of The Hidden History of Louisiana’s Jazz Age, will examine the controversy over Louis Armstrong’s Fourth of July birthday in a talk at the Opelousas Museum on Friday, July 1.

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Author Ricky Riccardi says Armstrong's innovations as a trumpeter and vocalist helped set the entire soundtrack of the 20th century. His new book about Armstrong's early life is Stomp Off, Let's Go.