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 ...

As local high school marching bands fill the streets with rolling thunder over the next couple of weeks, consider the battered cornet on view at the New Orleans Jazz Museum exhibition “It All Started ...

It would be difficult to find a better embodiment of the American dream than Louis Armstrong, who was born in 1901 to a single mother in the rough, poverty-stricken Back O’ Town neighborhood near what ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This cornet was identified by various ...

On June 21, 1929, the New York Times reviewed a “noisy, high spirited, fast moving” musical revue at the Hudson Theatre called Hot Chocolates. “Cornets and saxophones blare an adequately torrid ...