The 21-year-old Armstrong, on cornet, was a protégé of New Orleans fellow cornetist and band leader King Joe Oliver. On April 5, 1923, they went into a Richmond, Ind., studio for a two-day session.

Clifton Oliver, an actor who appeared on Broadway in “The Lion King,” “In the Heights” and “Wicked,” has died. He was 47. The prolific performer passed away Wednesday following a ...

The ensemble, billed on the initial releases as “King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band,” immediately launched a thousand other groups, although few if any emulated Oliver’s use of two cornets.

In 2018’s “Down the River Unto the Sea,” New York City PI Joe King Oliver slid into the space occupied in many readers’ hearts by Walter Mosley’s iconic Los Angeles hero, Easy Rawlins.It ...

Joseph Nathan “King” Oliver’s legacy as a pioneering jazz trumpet and cornet player is being recognized with a new jazz bar in Savannah.

Coming off of 2012's crime-thriller Savages, Oliver Stone's aspiration to make a film about Martin Luther King Jr. made headlines in October 2013.Just three months later, however, news broke that ...

Joe King Oliver is an ex-New York cop who served three months in Rikers for the rape of a White woman, a crime he didn’t commit. He was framed, but the echoes of the imprisonment stick to Joe ...

The 21-year-old Armstrong, on cornet, was a protégé of New Orleans fellow cornetist and band leader King Joe Oliver. On April 5, 1923, they went into a Richmond, Ind., studio for a two-day session.