Although the month of March is named after the Roman god of war, Mars, while the English verb “to march” is derived a different source, the ...

Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht famously liked their grub, forever breaking off mid stanza to rustle up some rostbratwurst-und-kartoffeln, so ...

I absolutely loathe this song. Or at least in the iteration it is best known, the version that ruined weeks and weeks and weeks of my chi...

Nanci Griffith : Armstrong [ purchase ] It isn’t a particularly profound or original observation to point out that 1969 was a pivotal ...

As a native of the New York borough of Queens , I’ve been a bit miffed by the virtual (but not complete) absence of any references to Qu...

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong : It Ain’t Necessarily So [ purchase ] Well, it needed to be said.  Belief and faith are wonderfu...

Louis Armstrong : All of Me [ purchase ] All of Me was written in 1931, and since then, it has been recorded over 2000 times. Ella Fitz...

Louis Armstrong: Christmas In New Orleans [purchase] Christmas In New Orleans celebrates the fact that, in spite of the images of picturesq...

I think what gets lost in the fog of time is the full picture of Louis Armstrong. Most people today know him as the old d00d that sang Hello...