If you’re visiting the Satchmo Summerfest taking place this weekend at the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint, step inside for a look at Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong’s cornet. The piece of ...
Traditional jazz will be the cornerstone of a new concert series at Loyola University honoring cornet player Connie Jones and his wife, Elaine. The Connie Jones Legacy Band, an ensemble of players who ...
That cornet, presumably the first one played by Armstrong, is suspended beneath glass in the Old U.S. Mint as it was 10 years ago, before Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the building, sending the ...