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Van the Man and The Queen of Soul are headlining next year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

After dropping a friend off at work Monday, Tommy Williams of Gretna circled back to check out an SUV that was submerged in the Outfall Canal in Algiers.

SEVENTH ANNUAL PANAMA JAZZ FESTIVAL, LED BY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DANILO PEREZ, ANNOUNCES 2010 LINEUP Panama's annual cornerstone cultural event, the seventh Panama Jazz Festival will be held January 11-16, 2010 .

Louis Armstrong was the greatest jazz musician of the 20th century and a giant of modern American culture.

'The Princess and the Frog' It has taken Disney almost 75 years to conjure up its first African-American fairy tale princess, but good things take time.

Friday, 11 December 2009, 1:51 pm Press Release: National Jazz Festival Two international music legends, a new jazz fusion club, the premiere of a project marrying music to historic New Zealand film footage, and a tribute to "the greatest female jazz/pop singer of the 20th century" feature in the 48th National Jazz Festival in Tauranga in April ...

Now that so many archives have gone digital, it can be easy to forget that many collections exist only partly online, if they have a digital component at all.

Sinatra: New York Featuring Sinatra at his freewheeling, feisty best, the five-disc box-set Sinatra: New York collects live unreleased recordings made in various venues around New York City from 1955 to 1990.

Spokane boys Bing Crosby and Al Rinker made their first recording, a oeIa ve Got the Girl,a in 1926.

Louis Armstrong was a lot more than a gravelly voiced vocalist who sang the hits "Hello, Dolly" and "What a Wonderful World." Armstrong was also a lot more than an innovative jazz composer and trumpet player.

Guitarist and vocalist Flora Scott will be joined by Roy Styffe on saxophone, Sean Drabitt on bass and Josh Dixon on drums in the upcoming Jazz Vespers.

Louis Armstrong performs with his All Stars in 1956. Terry Teachout's new biography of Armstrong is based in part on a cache of backstage and after-hours conversations that Armstrong recorded for himself.

An Air France A380 was forced to turn around when it developed a problem with the navigation system.

The book is a visual record of New Orleans jazz and can serve as a primer to the history of our music.

The renovations at Louis Armstrong International Airport include expanding Concourse D with a new rotunda that will include six new departure gates.

Not long before he died in 1971, Louis Armstrong wrote to a friend, "Life was there for me and I accepted it.

The New Orleans hotel scene is finally turning green with the help of Faux De Lis, the design of entrepreneurs Collyn Martinez and David Friedlaender who are meeting a glaring need in the hospitality industry for walls that are more durable, green, cost effective to maintain, and aesthetically pleasing.

Passenger levels were up nearly 9% at Louisiana's largest commercial airport last month, with concert-goers, conventioneers and football fans helping provide the boost.

Young viewers of The Princess and the Frog won't give a croak that the marvelous new - adventure from Walt Disney Animation Studios has been created using the same hand-drawn, 2-D techniques that entertained those viewers' Bambi -loving grandparents more than 65 years ago.

North Elementary School teacher Patty Bays dishes up some New Orleans style jambalaya Friday for her students who have been studying the Southern city.