Zachary Scott Theatre Center

The National Endowment for the Arts is giving the Zachary Scott Theatre Center $40,000 toward a production of 'Porgy and Bess' to be staged in 2007

"...of the famous recorded versions by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong or Cleo Laine and Ray Charles. Steakley has..."

April 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Big Chief Kevin Goodman & the Flaming Arrows

Live shot

"...a Creole patois that bridges the gravelly gap between Louis Armstrong and Juvenile, Goodman fronts a band that stretches..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Music Review by Robert Gabriel

Talking 'Bout New Orleans

Talking 'Bout New Orleans

"...Orleans, widespread displacement of its citizens certainly is. When Louis Armstrong wondered "Do You Know What It Means to..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Music Review by Robert Gabriel

The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues

Gift guide

"...performers here, as well as the usual pieces on Louis Armstrong and T-Bone Walker. The superb 1920s and 1930s..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Here Yet Ever There

From Austin, New Orleans artists strive to save what remains of their city and work to recover it

"...Orleans Hall of Heroes, featuring the robotic likes of Louis Armstrong, Archie Manning, Blaine Kerne, Mayor Ray Nagin, and..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Arts Feature

Iraqnophobia

Tough Austin tenorman Alex Coke

"...He said, "'I grew up on Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet and I saw them perform...."

July 22, 2005 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans

Gift guide

"...Buddy Bolden Say"), Kid Ory ("Royal Garden Blues"), and Louis Armstrong ("Potato Head Blues"), the Crescent City has balanced..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...10pm, Cedar Street Evoking the spirit of Louis Armstrong as an accomplished trumpeter and a scatting singer,..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

'One From the Heart'

Coppola's critically, commercially, and conversationally ravaged Las Vegas romance makes a comeback

"...me of nothing so much as a scene with Louis Armstrong in a Fleischer brothers' Betty Boop cartoon, Gayle's..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Texas Towns & Places

"...it on the show, encouraging versions by Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, and of course Bob Wills.11 "Streets of Laredo,"..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Bright Lights, Inner City

When Austin's Eastside music scene was lit up like Broadway

"...into Austin's Cotton Club at the same time that Louis Armstrong was polishing his trumpet in preparation for his..."

July 4, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Sheet Music

Summer Reading

"...era, and some of his early heroes were Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Benny Goodman. Yet he didn't turn off..."

June 6, 2003 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...Coleman were at their peaks. Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, and Coleman Hawkins were still doing masterful work...."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

The Culinary Library

Worthwhile gift choices from Santa's book bag

"...put a Lynchburg Lemonade on the same pedestal as Louis Armstrong. Then again, I'd usually take a Manhattan over..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

When the Sun Goes Down: The Secret History of Rock & Roll

Box Set

"...country crooner Jimmie Rodgers doing "Blue Yodel #9" with Louis Armstrong on cornet? A few cuts could have been..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Music Feature by David Lynch

Frank Sinatra

In Box

"...Rainbow pair Sinatra with Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Logan, and Louis Armstrong in an omnibus-style fusion of jazz, blues, and..."

July 12, 2002 Music Review by Greg Beets

Joey Ramone

"...disc blasts off with a joyous punk rendition of Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" that interpolates the Sex..."

March 29, 2002 Music Review by Greg Beets

More From the Local Bookstore

"...provides by the likes of Dr. John, Fats Domino, Louis Armstrong, and Professor Longhair. Yummy...."

Feb. 1, 2002 Music Feature by Clay Smith

Billie Holiday

Box Sets

"...Holiday's admiration of Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and particularly Louis Armstrong kept her eyes on the prize. Discovered by..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Music Review by Jeff Mccord

Mr. Smarty Pants

Data snacks for your brain's buffet.

"...Louis Armstrong was born 74 years after the death of..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Critics Poll 2000

"...Jay Trachtenberg: Louis Armstrong, The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature

Charlie Parker

"...genius. Jumpy, kinetic, and utterly original, no one since Louis Armstrong had done more to upend music, and Bird..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Review by Jeff Mccord

Central Avenue Sounds (Rhino)

Box Sets

"...artists from New Orleans (Kid Ory, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong) or Toledo (Art Tatum), who were passing through..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Expanding Cinema

An interview with premier avant-garde filmmaker and musician Michael Snow.

"...jazz, in which I had been previously involved, playing Louis Armstrong, Hot Five. But the point that I'd like..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Screens Feature by Athina Rachel Tsangari

Estrellas de Areito: Los Heroes

"...major trumpeters such as Felix Chappotin, regarded as the Louis Armstrong of Cuba, Arturo Sandoval, who plays with taste..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Digital Duke: Best of the Rest

"...tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins on Impulse and two with Louis Armstrong, currently available on Blue Note. Also available on..."

April 30, 1999 Music Feature

Country Variety

"...first-class talent from the musicians of other genres, like Louis Armstrong, Jose Feliciano, Arlo Guthrie, and Linda Ronstadt. The..."

April 16, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...on psychedelic hard rock, Hank Williams, Tom Waits, and Louis Armstrong. With last year's Bloodshot debut, the Eric Ambel-produced..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Identifying the Impulse

"...Upon his return, the hot jazz movement popularized by Louis Armstrong was in full swing, and Lion couldn't get..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Jeff Mccord

115 Comics Walk Into a Bar ...

"...not opening with the "Gorditas" bit and closing with Louis Armstrong smoking a spliff. Oh well, there's always next..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

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