Guardian Music — Louis Armstrong's home recordings made for an unusual, but fascinating, hour of radioIt would be, presenter Paul Sexton promised, "a very unusual hour on Radio 2". And so it was, with Satchmo by Satchmo, a programme filled with home recordings made b... more info

Detroit Free Press — The Detroit Symphony Orchestra drew 5,000 people over two nights to last summer's lakeside concerts on the terrace of the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House. The DSO-Ford House partnership returns Friday with a program celebrating Louis Armstrong starri... more info

Guardian Music — Jazz trumpeter with imagination and taste, he played lead with an array of great bandsThe jazz trumpeter Snooky Young, who has died aged 92, served during his long career with an array of great bands, including those of Jimmie Lunceford and Count Ba... more info

Altsounds — If indeed "you blows who you is", as Louis Armstrong once famously said, then *Stephen Bruner's* bass is a mainline to the soul of a man whose DNA was transcribed from the stars onto staff paper. His *Flying Lotus*-produced debut, The Golden Age of A... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe death of John Barry in January robbed the cinema world of one of its most outstanding soundtrack composers. This one-off memorial concert, co-produced by his widow Laurie and long-time Barry devotee David Arnold, featured... more info

Guardian Music — In a seven-part series, Guardian and Observer writers are trying to tell the history of modern music. Rounding everything off, today they pick out 50 key moments in the story of jazz – but what did they miss?Drug busts, razor-sharp tailoring and br... more info

Guardian Music — Early 1900s: Number 1 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz musicWhether or not the cornetist Buddy Bolden invented jazz (Jelly Roll Morton is one of the best known other claimants to the title), he certainly created the enduring ... more info

Guardian Music — 1916: Number 3 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz musicLouis Armstrong bought his first cornet at a New Orleans pawnshop, when he was 15 years old. The instrument cost $10, and was "all bent up, holes knocked in the bell". Neve... more info

Guardian Music — 1917: Number 4 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz musicJazz had been evolving for almost a decade before it was recorded – and a white New Orleans band called the Original Dixieland Jazz Band beat all the superior Southland b... more info

Guardian Music — Philip Larkin loved trad jazz. John Harris grew up thinking nothing before bebop was worth listening to. So he tried to discover the appeal of Ellington and Basie"I can live a week without poetry," Philip Larkin said in 1965, "but not a day without j... more info