The innovative remake of a Broadway show tune dethroned the Beatles and won multiple Grammys.

An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged from the streets of New Orleans. The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis "Satchmo ...

Sophisticated artist or folk musician? Virtuoso or clown? The debate about Louis Armstrong raged in living rooms across mid-20th-century America. Did the jazz master’s eye-rolling antics—his ...