He noted the fun King Oliver’s musicians had on stage ... thing is for you to get your own feeling,” Armstrong once counseled the trumpeter Louis Metcalf at the Savoy Ballroom in Chicago.

Newly published by Oxford, “Stomp Off, Let’s Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong” finishes ... We all knew that Armstrong’s “West End Blues,” based on a melody by Joseph “King” Oliver — the man ...

Louis Armstrong, born in New Orleans in 1901 ... music scene and began playing small clubs and parades before Joe "King" Oliver, a fellow horn player, became his mentor. When Oliver left for ...

A look at blues, ragtime, and jazz, as performed by artists such as Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, and others, and how it is tied into the civil rights struggle led by Martin Luther King.