August 2 - 4, 2001
The Old U.S. Mint
French Quarter
New Orleans, Louisiana

Location: Palm Court Jazz Cafe, 1204 Decatur Street (2 blocks from the Mint). After the reception, the Palm Court will remain open for dinner at 8:00 pm. For dinner reservations, call (504) 525-0200.

Location: New Orleans International Airport, 900 Airline Drive, Kenner, LA

Dr. Connie Atkinson, Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies, University of New Orleans Michael Cogswell, Director, Louis Armstrong House and Archives, Queens College, New York.

Dr. John Edward Hasse, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. An overview of the extraordinary life and legacy of Louis Armstrong, providing the outlines of his life and career, pointing out his musical and professional highlights, and assessing his place in American history. The talk will be richly illustrated with slides, recording excerpts, and video clips.

Part I: Tad Jones - The historian who who discovered Armstrong's baptismal certificate discusses Armstrong's real birthday and his birthplace on Jane Alley.

Location: Palm Court Jazz Café, 1204 Decatur Street (2 blocks from the Mint) - Reservations required - $25 (see registration form). Three course luncheon includes soft drinks and coffee.
Music: Original Louis Armstrong recordings (Dan Meyer)

Dr. Richard Wang, University of Chicago. What was the impact of the New Orleans players on the music of Chicago, particularly the role of New Orleanians in changing the musicians' unions there? Dr. Wang avers that far from coming to Chicago to escape a segregationist musical community, New Orleanians found a much harder color line in the northern city than they had experienced in New Orleans.

Part 1: Dan Morgenstern, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University. Armstrong scholar Dan Mrogenstern will talk about the significance of New York to Armstrong in terms of his first (1924-25) stay, his "second coming" (1929), and the role New York played in his still not quite satisfactorily researched managerial and gangster-related problems and their resolution - this is a prelude to his eventually becoming a New Yorker.

Panel:
Dr. Frederick Starr (Johns Hopkins Univ) Jazz in the Soviet Union; Dr. Penny von Eschen, (Univ of Michigan) jazz and Africa; Mike Zwerin, (International Herald Tribune, Paris) Jazz under the Nazis; David Horn, Director of the Institute of Popular Music, Liverpool; Berndt Ostendorf (Director of the Amerika Institute, University of Munich).

Free to registrants and includes free pass to Friday evening's 'Satchmo Club Strut,' a club crawl to jazz clubs in Frenchmen/Decatur street area, including Snug Harbor, El Matador, Café Brasil, the Tin Roof Café and other premier clubs for performances honoring the Louis Armstrong legacy by noted groups such as Astral Project, the Original Dixieland Jass Band, David Dunbar and the Southern Peach Sweet Tarts with Ellen Rogers, and Irakli and the Louis Ambassadors from France. A fundraiser for the Jazz Centennial Celebration's educational outreach programs. (non-registrants $20, tickets available at Palm Court and Snug Harbor on the evening of the event)

Dr. Michael White, Xavier University, New Orleans.
With all the new exciting work on the many styles of music that were drawn upon to create Armstrong's work, Dr. White reminds us of that important ingredient, the blues.

Panel:
John Chilton, Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story,
Dr. Thomas Brothers, Duke, Armstrong in His Own Words,
Laurence Bergreen, Louis Armstrong,
Dr. Joshua Berrett, The Louis Armstrong Companion: Eight Decades of Commentary,
Dempsey Travis, Louis Armstrong Odyssey: From Jane Alley to America's Jazz Ambassador.

"Props for Pops" with Charmaine Neville. A musical program focusing on New Orleans International Ambassador of Jazz. Presented by the Jazz Centennial Celebration.

Of the six remaining steamboats still operating on the Mississippi or its tributaries, Captain Clarke 'Doc" Hawley has commanded or piloted five. In almost half a century of excursion boating, he has witnessed performances of Danny Barker, Alvin Alcorn, Vic Tooker and Professor Longhair. This active river historian, pilot and calliope player will be joined by Connie Jones, an accomplished cornet player for nearly 50 years who has traveled the world and the river, for a lively discussion of the changing Mississippi and its music.

Phoebe Jacobs interviewed by Dan Morgenstern
The Armstrong Legacy: an interview with Armstrong Foundation Vice President Phoebe Jacobs who has been the keeper of the Armstrong flame for over 30 years. A close friend of the Armstrong family, Ms Jacobs will share insights into Armstrong's growing legacy since his passing, including the growth and development of the Armstrong Foundation.

Arvell Shaw, Joe Muranyi and Franz Jackson
A real treat for Armstrong fans - interviews with stars and legends from the Satchmo era. Interviewed by Michael Cogswell, Armstrong Archives.

Selma Heraldo interviewed by Peggy Schein (curator, Armstrong House and Archives) - Louis Armstrong's next door neighbor knew the Armstrong family in an intimate way, but chose to keep her knowledge private. Recently, however, she has decided to share the memories of her years of living next door to Satchmo. Her travels with the Armstrongs as Lucille Armstrong's companion included the famous trip to New Orleans to see Armstrong crowned King Zulu!

Famed jazz photographer Herman Leonard and French publisher Frank Ténot (Paris Match, Elle, Jazz) reminisce about the great jazz days in Paris and New York, sharing intimate never-before-told tales of Billie, Charlie, Louis and more.

Dr. Jack Stewart, local New Orleans jazz historian and musician, will circulate a list that he's compiled of almost every major New Orleans cornet and trumpet player of the 19th, 20th and 21st century, with their influences and styles. A major work.

Tad Jones, jazz historian, leads an informative tour of Armstrong's neighborhood. Starts at the corner of Poydras and South Rampart Streets.

Location: University of New Orleans Lakefront Arena, 8:00 pm, Ticketmaster, $35 and up.

Location: Visitors Center, New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, behind the shops at the French Market, Decatur Street.