Metalsucks — Andy Rehfeldt strikes again!!! The latest from Rehfeldt — a.k.a. “The dude responsible for the jazzercised Lamb of God, the Disneyfied Cannibal Corpse, and metallicized Louis Armstrong videos — is a death metal version of Conway Twitty’s “... more info

Altsounds — White's interpretation of Warren Zevon's tale of heartbreak, Accidentally Like a Matryr, leads a 5 track digital EP that features White's take on artists as diverse as Louis Armstrong and Sparklehorse and is released by Cooking Vinyl. *_ACCIDEN... more info

All About Jazz — Cool jazz was one of the most popular jazz styles of the 1950s. Not all of the cool jazz leaders were based in California, and not all of the jazz there during the era was cool jazz; but the music made its greatest impact and reached the height of it... more info

All About Jazz — Writer Eugene Holley, Jr. gives his take on trumpet masters performing at CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival NEWPORT, RI--Buddy Bolden blowing on the Mississippi, the clarion call of Louis Armstrong's "West End Blues," the revolutionary, reordering of... more info

Guardian Music — Free-jazz saxophonist devoted to his hometown of ChicagoNew Orleans and New York are usually the frontrunners for iconic jazz towns, but Chicago comes very close. Louis Armstrong and the pioneering New Orleans jazz wave moved there in the northward m... more info

All About Jazz — In the spring of 1947 trumpeter Louis Armstrong was 45 years old-considered by some critics and fans to be all but washed up, with his best years behind him and his music made irrelevant by the rising force of bebop. For 20 years he had been one of j... more info

Guardian Music — Mermaid, LondonThe last time librettist Mike Phillips and composer-pianist Julian Joseph teamed up for a jazz opera, it was about 19th-century black violinist George Bridgetower. Shadowball uses a similar structure to dramatise the parallels between ... more info

All About Jazz — Cymbal-HeadWhy did Louis Armstrong's standing in the jazz scene plummet during his "Hello Dolly" era, as if he had not been The Man? The reason may be that 1964 was about the time that jazz lost its sense of humor. Not its sly, oblique sense of humor... more info

Guardian Music — Blues and boogie pianist who played with all of the greatsIf for nothing else, the pianist Johnny Parker, who has died aged 80, will be remembered for his rollicking introductory sequence on Humphrey Lyttelton's hit 1956 single Bad Penny Blues. Of co... more info

Totally Fuzzy — a r n e l said... Nina Simone - 2 albums Louis Armstrong - 3 albums Curtis Mayfield - 2 albums A Tribe called Quest - 3 albums Scissor Sisters - 2 albums Chicago - 3 albums Billy Joel - 14 albums KT Tunstall - 2 albums http://bestfbothworlds.blogspot... more info