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This cover image released by Verve/UMG shows “Louis in London (Live at the BBC)” by Louis Armstrong. (Verve/UMG via AP)

Music Review: ‘Louis in London,’ a 1968 live album, captures a joyful, late-career Louis Armstrong

By Steven Wine - Associated Press

Who was Louis Armstrong’s mentor?

By JAMES KARST - Associated Press

The tragic life of a comic figure in Louis Armstrong’s book

By JAMES KARST - Associated Press

In this Jan. 11, 2011, file photo, NEA Jazz Masters George Avakian, left, and Jimmy Heath pose for a photo at the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Awards Ceremony and Concert held in New York. Avakian, a Russian-born jazz scholar and architect of the American music industry who produced essential recordings by Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and other stars has died at age 98. Avakian's daughter, Anahid Avakian Gregg, confirmed that her father died Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)

George Avakian, jazz producer and scholar, dies at 98

By Hillel Italie - Associated Press

In this March 12, 2014 photo, Earl D'Amico, 84, poses for a portrait in Joliet, Ill. D'Amico is a former Joliet restauranteur and businessman. Through his businesses D'Amico brought a variety of entertainers to Joliet, including Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Guy Lombardo and Tina Turner. He shared some of his stories at the Joliet Area Historical Museum on March 16. (AP Photo/The Herald-News, Lathan Goumas) MANDATORY CREDIT

EXCHANGE: Owner tells story of bygone nightclub

By BILL WIMBISCUS - Associated Press

Airport may harness the sun for power

By JEFF ADELSON - Associated Press

**FILE** Workers squeegee water from the court in Arthur Ashe Stadium as rain fell at the 2012 US Open tennis tournament, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

U.S. Open’s Arthur Ashe Stadium to get roof by 2017 under expansion plan

By Rachel Cohen - Associated Press

New Orleans jazz landmark razed in rebuilding push

By CAIN BURDEAU - Associated Press

Pritzker’s 1st is silent film with live music

By MARTHA WAGGONER - Associated Press

‘It’s the human side’ of jazz