When we last left off, Louis Armstrong and Alpha Smith abruptly left Europe in January 1935 and headed back to the United States, where they laid low in Chicago as Louis was unable to play trumpet …| That's My Home
In our previous post, we shared the entire contents of a scrapbook compiled by young Alpha Smith between 1926 and 1931, the years she was courting Louis Armstrong–while Louis was still marrie…| That's My Home
In our previous post, we shared Louis Armstrong’s 1954 Ebony cover story, “Why I Like Dark Women,” in which Armstrong offered his reflections on all four of his wives. He spent th…| That's My Home
As we have stated numerous times on this website, there would not be a Louis Armstrong House Museum without the efforts of Louis’s longtime wife, Lucille Wilson. We have profiled Lucille̵…| That's My Home