louis armstrong

To be a great architect — or painter or poet or almost anything — do you need a great patron? Certainly that helps, but according to architects Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson, you have to bring the talent and vision and invention. The conversation takes places at the Louis Armstrong Center, a building they designed.

Larry Tye ("Satchel," "Bobby Kennedy") has penned a portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet. The book is "The Jazzmen."

In this week's Classical Music According to Yehuda, Alan Chartock and Yehuda Hanani continue their exploration of Jewish Music, sharing George and Ira…