Louis Armstrong, maestro of jazz, would be a good subject for one of his own songs—a black rascal raised in a waifs’ home, whose first real job was playing on a Mississippi steamboat; a headliner ...

In August 1950, trumpeter Louis Armstrong and alto saxophonist Louis Jordan record two sides together as a duet. Their pairing by Decca producer Milt Gabler was natural, since both superstars were ...