The Louis Armstrong House Museum has acquired the only known film footage of the great jazz musician in a recording studio — following its discovery in a storage facility. The 33-minute, 16mm film ...
Since that time in his teens when he self-published the early ’90s graffiti art zine “Graphic Scenes & X-Plicit Language,” Sacha Jenkins has been about documenting hip-hop and funk culture — Black ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. LOUIS, a contemporary silent film about Louis Armstrong, will be brought to ...
Sidney Poitier wasn’t happy with Martin Ritt’s “Paris Blues” (1961), not at all. Writing in his 1981 autobiography, “This Life,” Poitier rued the screen adaptation of Harold Flender’s 1957 novel of ...
“Louis,” released in 2010, is a black-and-white silent film in the classic tradition, with subtitles on text cards displayed between scenes, exaggerated gestures and facial expressions, and of course, ...
A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, February 23, producers have announced. At the time of closing, the production will have played 151 ...
For nearly 30 years, world-renowned jazz musician Louis Armstrong and his wife, Lucille, lived quietly in a small, two-story house in Corona, Queens. His professional life featured performances for ...