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Listen up! kalahari.net stocks 100s of artists and albums for every music fan. Full Article at News24
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California Girls by the Beach Boys has become one of 25 new songs to be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Full Article at BBC News
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Shopping for the best pop culture stuff. Most people know Terry Teachout from his theatre criticism at The Wall Street Journal and essays at Commentary, but the writer actually began his career in the arts as a professional jazz musician. Full Article at PopMatters
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David Houle -- Click on the photo - read David Houle's archives. Full Article at Jack Myers
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Recording Academy on Tuesday added songs by James Brown, Bob Marley, the Beach Boys, Louis Armstrong and others to its Grammy Hall of Fame, bringing the total number of titles in the collection to 851. Full Article at ABC News
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In the "Dancing with the Stars" finale this week, it all came down to three couples and three dances that will determine who wins the disco mirror ball this season. Full Article at Aces Showbiz
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Louis Armstrong, a k a Satchmo, a k a Pops, was to music what Picasso was to painting, what Joyce was to fiction: an innovator who changed the face of his art form, a fecund and endlessly inventive pioneer whose discovery of his own voice helped remake... Full Article at Sports Blogs
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With “Pops,” his eloquent and important new biography of Armstrong, the critic and cultural historian Terry Teachout restores this jazzman to his deserved place in the pantheon of American artists, building upon Gary Giddins’s excellent 1988 study,... Full Article at BrothersJudd Blog
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Louis Armstrong a k a Satchmo a k a Pops was to music what Picasso was to painting, what Joyce was to fiction: an innovator who changed the face of his art form, a fecund and endlessly inventive pioneer whose discovery of his own voice helped remake... Full Article at International Herald Tribune
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Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. Ginsberg at the Peace March, photo by Fred W. McDarrah I live on 103rd Street near Central Park West, one of the very few whites in a block of Negroes and Puerto Ricans. Full Article at Village Voice
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Terry Teachout makes clear in this terrific biography, the world that Louis Armstrong inhabited was anything but wonderful. It was, for most of his life, both profoundly racist and astonishingly bitchy. Full Article at BrothersJudd Blog
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ABOUT "ABOUT LAST NIGHT" AND ITS AUTHORS This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout, Laura Demanski (otherwise known as Our Girl in Chicago, or "OGIC" for short), and Carrie Frye (who signs her... Full Article at ArtsJournal
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In 1968, not long after the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, Louis Armstrong went to the ABC Records studio to record “What A Wonderful World.” It was written by George David Weiss and legendary producer Bob Thiele (Coltrane,... Full Article at Firedoglake
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NEW ORLEANS Passenger levels were up nearly 9 percent at Louisiana's largest commercial airport last month, with concertgoers, conventioners and football fans helping provide the boost. Full Article at The Daily Advertiser
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If you’ve always found Chick Corea’s tunes too quirky and glib — and can’t forgive him for Return to Forever — then this tribute is unlikely to change your mind. Full Article at Times Online
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During the 1960s when the American Civil Rights movement entered a militant phase, there was a lot of downgrading of old idols as having been too subservient to the White majority. Full Article at Indian Express
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Terry Teachout makes clear in this terrific biography, the world that Louis Armstrong inhabited was anything but wonderful. It was, for most of his life, both profoundly racist and astonishingly bitchy. Full Article at Times Online
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Far out improv, high concept contemporary composition, new jazz scholarship and "cut loose" music from Guadeloupe flood Lowest Manhattan (all the way to Staten Island) this weekend. Full Article at ArtsJournal
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Quick: Name the Boston-area club whose stage has been graced by Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Loretta Lynn, Tiny Tim, the Dropkick Murphys and art thief/rock singer Myles Connor. Stumped? Full Article at Boston Herald
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On Wednesday, prolific songwriter and singer Johnny Mercer would have turned 100. Full Article at Online NewsHour
About Louis Armstrong
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Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer. Full Article
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A spectator sits in Louis Armstrong Stadium during a rain delay at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.
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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 03: A general view from Louis Armstrong Stadium with Arthur Ashe Stadium in the background during day four of the 2009 U.S. Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 3, 2009 in Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.
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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 03: A general view from Louis Armstrong Stadium with Arthur Ashe Stadium in the background during day four of the 2009 U.S. Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 3, 2009 in Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.
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The sun sets over Louis Armstrong Stadium during a match between Ana Ivanovic of Serbia and Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York, September 1, 2009. In the background is Arthur Ashe stadium.
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President Barack Obama is greeted by, from left, Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. , and Gov. Bobby Jindal upon his arrival at Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner, La. , Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009.
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President Barack Obama is greeted by, from left, Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. , and Gov. Bobby Jindal upon his arrival at Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner, La. , Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009.
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President Barack Obama waves as he exits Air Force One at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Kenner, La. , Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009.
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President Barack Obama talks with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal upon his arrival at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Kenner, La. , Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009.
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Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, returns the ball to Yanina Wickmayer, of Belgium, in a near-empty Louis Armstrong Stadium during their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.
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Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, serves to Yanina Wickmayer, of Belgium, in a near-empty Louis Armstrong Stadium during their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.
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Yanina Wickmayer, of Belgium, returns a shot to Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, in a near empty Louis Armstrong Stadium during their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.
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Yanina Wickmayer, of Belgium, returns a shot to Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, in a near empty Louis Armstrong Stadium during their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.
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Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, hits the ball to Yanina Wickmayer, of Belgium, in a near empty Louis Armstrong Stadium during their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.
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Yanina Wickmayer, of Belgium, returns the ball to Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, in a near empty Louis Armstrong Stadium during their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.
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Workers squeegee the court in Louis Armstrong Stadium during a rain delay at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.
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A video screen with the US Open logo is reflected on the court at Louis Armstrong Stadium during a rain delay at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.
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Arthur Ashe Stadium is seen in the background as spectators in Louis Armstrong Stadium wait for play to resume during a rain delay at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.
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Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina (R) and Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain wait in hallway beneath Louis Armstrong Stadium before their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, September 8, 2009. Del Potro won the match.
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Gilles Simon, foreground, of France, walks off the court at Louis Armstrong Stadium after his match against Juan Carlos Ferrero, of Spain, in the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009. Ferraro won 1-6, 6-4, 7-6(5), 1-0.
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The setting sun lights the sky over the Louis Armstrong Stadium during the doubles match of Serena and Venus Williams versus Yung-Jan Chan of Taipei and Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, September 5, 2009.
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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 05: Tommy Haas of Germany returns a shot against Fernando Verdasco of Spain at Louis Armstrong Stadium during day six of the 2009 U.S. Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 5, 2009 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough o...
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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 05: Novak Djokovic of Serbia serves to Jesse Witten of the United States at Louis Armstrong Stadium during day six of the 2009 U.S. Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 5, 2009 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of N...
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Jurgen Melzer of Austria (R) serves to Marat Safin of Russia during the U.S. Open tennis tournament at the Louis Armstrong Stadium in New York September 2, 2009.
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A fan rests in the stands at the Louis Armstrong Stadium during the match between Amelie Mauresmo of France and Tatjana Malek of Germany at the U.S. Open tennis championship in New York, August 31, 2009.
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Spectators sit in Louis Armstrong Stadium during a rain delay at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.
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