The Louis Armstrong Center Celebrates the Heroic Jazz Trumpeter

Since 2008, Louis Armstrong’s house in Corona, Queens, where the trumpeter lived from 1943 until his death, in 1971, has been the Louis Armstrong House Museum, celebrating the heroic jazz soloist, beloved entertainer, and civil-rights activist. Across the street is the new Louis Armstrong Center, an archive, an exhibition space, and a theatre. The Museum extends Armstrong’s legacy in a concert series, which, on July 4, featured the singer Catherine Russell (above), whose father, Luis, was one of Armstrong’s main musical collaborators in the nineteen-thirties.