Get your new listening fixLet’s roll back the clock to July 2019 and the debut Podcasts For The People column. My very first pick in that very first column was George The Poet’s Have You Heard George’s Podcast? That first season from the London author/writer/rapper/activist, released in 2018, still sounds astonishing. So good news, on Mond...

Yesterday, a New York Times feature revealed that thousands upon thousands of master tapes from artists like Louis Armstrong, Janet Jackson, and Tupac were destroyed in a 2008 fire at Universal Studios Hollywood. Although the fire itself was public knowledge, the loss of Universal Music Group's recordings was kept secret, with even the artists a...

On April 24, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings will release "Satchmo at the National Press Club: Red Beans and Rice-ly Yours," a live recording of one of the last times Louis Armstrong played his trumpet in public

Reuters - British singer-songwriter Elvis Costello has told fans not to buy a pricey limited edition box set of his music on sale next month, recommending they purchase some Louis Armstrong instead.

Louis Armstrong was born on this day (August 4) in 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana