Louis Armstrong News

Everyone has come to expect the Maltz Jupiter Theatre to produce outstanding season productions of musicals and plays. But what makes the Maltz Jupiter Theatre distinctive from other regional theatres across the county is that it also presents a season of outstanding concerts, plays, films and children's shows.

Come pursue the varieties of jazz experience at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem! From conversations and live performances to educational sessions and panel discussions, you're sure to have a ball and learn a lot too.

Queens Theatre in the Park (QTP) presents T'ain't No Sin, A Ragtime and Jazz Party on Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 8pm in the Claire Shulman Playhouse Main Stage Theatre at Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing, NY.

On Tuesday, March 23, Antoinette Montague will be performing at the John Birks Gillespie Auditorium at the Baha'i Center, with Mike Longo, Payton Crossley, Paul West, and Harry Allen on sax.

In 1985, three former teen idols-all from the same Philadelphia neighborhood-teamed for a concert titled The Golden Boys, which not only satisfied fans from their teen era by performing their hits, but illustrated that good singing and stage presence never go out of style.

Southern Rep Theatre is very excited to announce that two of New Orleans' favorite local musicians and showmen, Trombone Shorty and Kermit Ruffins, return to Southern Rep to perform with their bands at the annual BACKSTAGE BASH, Saturday, March 20th, 2010.

Ask Your Mama, the extraordinary new work that made a sold-out audience at Carnegie Hall last season 'thunder its approval' (The New York Times), fills the stage on Friday evening, April 1at 8pm to aid the victims of Haiti's devastating earthquake. Hailed by The Los Angeles Times for 'its feeling of freshness and uncanny currency,' this remarkable collaboration between Emmy Award-winning composer Laura Karpman and world-renowned soprano Jessye Norman journeys from Africa to the Americas, South to North, cities to suburbs, opera to jazz, gospel to be-bop, and 'shadows to fire,' reflecting the pathways of Langston Hughes's epic Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz. The performance benefits Partners in Health and the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, and begins at 8pm in the Rose Theater in Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) presents improvisational saxophone legend Sonny Rollins at The Paramount Theatre. A rare treat, this engagement will be Rollins' first tour to Seattle in almost 15 years and his first performance at The Paramount Theatre. Always a restless creative spirit, a constantly self-renewing citizen of the jazz world and one of the music's leading lights, Rollins is jazz's most exacting, exhilarating and inspiring practitioners.

The Sheldon presents the St. Louis Stompers, Tuesday & Wednesday, April 6 & 7 at 10 a.m. in the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall. Tickets include complimentary pastries and coffee at 9 a.m., followed by the one-hour concert. The Saint Louis Stompers, a nationally recognized group has been playing a mixture of Chicago and New Orleans style traditional jazz and Dixieland, reminiscent of Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and King Oliver, since 1981. With years of experience between them, the Stompers talented musicians have performed with groups such as the Gateway City Big Band, Jean Kittrell's Old Saint Louis Levee Band, Sammy Kaye Orchestra, and the Saint Louis Riverman. This popular ensemble consists of members Pat Arana, trombone; Mike Lilley, clarinet; Steve Lilley, cornet; Dave Majchrzak, piano; Dave Zink, sousaphone; and Jack Tartar, drums and ukulele.

The Sheldon presents the St. Louis Stompers, Tuesday & Wednesday, April 6 & 7 at 10 a.m. in the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall. Tickets include complimentary pastries and coffee at 9 a.m., followed by the one-hour concert. The Saint Louis Stompers, a nationally recognized group has been playing a mixture of Chicago and New Orleans style traditional jazz and Dixieland, reminiscent of Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and King Oliver, since 1981.

Jenna gives a rundown of where she's been and what's coming up in the world of cabaret (and sometimes beyond!) This week's column features Barbara Martinez at Weill Recital Hall, Ray Jessel at Don't Tell Mama, and more!

A last minute financial gift by an anonymous donor on Thursday will allow parents to bring their children in grades K-12 to see Ben Vereen at Carmel High School free of charge this Sunday. College students can get half-price admission.

In March 2010, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem presents public programming that brings jazz fans closer to artists-emerging to living masters-that embody the art form that defines America to itself and to the world.

NYC DISCOVERY TOURS PUBLIC TOUR Schedule for March through Independence Weekend 2010, including St Patricks and St Josephs Day, Easter Weekend, Mother's Day Weekend, the Birthday of the High Line, the Birthday of the Brooklyn Bridge, Memorial Day, and Fathers Day.

Multi Award winning Director/Producer/Performer Lennie Watts bring the 2004 Nightlife Award winning, Under The Covers series to Don't Tell Mama on Sundays and Mondays in March. Under The Covers is a series in which each show is a different artist performing their favorite record album from start to finish.

In 2010 alone, 24-year-old New Orleans singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and all-around musical powerhouse Troy 'Trombone Shorty' Andrews has signed with Verve Forecast Records and performed on Good Morning America and ESPN's SportsCenter in the run-up to the Super Bowl. He has seen recordings he contributed to earn a Grammy award (Buckwheat Zydeco's 'Lay Your Burden Down') and an Oscar nomination (Dr. John's 'Down In New Orleans' from the hit Disney film 'The Princess and the Frog'). He has taped two appearances - as himself - for the upcoming HBO series 'Treme' from 'The Wire' creator David Simon, and played with his band Orleans Avenue as honored guests on Saints owner Tom Benson's float in a victorious post-Super Bowl Mardi Gras parade. He's just getting started.

Frank Loesser, who has frequently been called the most versatile of all Broadway composers, wrote some of the most enduring music of our time.

Multi Award winning Director/Producer/Performer Lennie Watts bring the 2004 Nightlife Award winning, Under The Covers series to Don't Tell Mama on Sundays and Mondays in March. Under The Covers is a series in which each show is a different artist performing their favorite record album from start to finish.

After learning the first seven of the Top 24 last night, tonight's episode left audiences in anticipation, waiting to see if their favorite singers would be selected through to the next round. Some of the choices seemed obvious (i.e. Andrew Garcia), while others left audiences wondering if they would receive good news or leave the judging room in tears.

In 1985, three former teen idols-all from the same Philadelphia neighborhood-teamed for a concert titled The Golden Boys, which not only satisfied fans from their teen era by performing their hits, but illustrated that good singing and stage presence never go out of style.