The holiday-bedecked elves in David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band provided the kind of Yuletide cheer that had a packed crowd of early era jazz fans loving every minute. Santa Ost-wald kept ...

Louis Armstrong, born in New Orleans in 1901, noted how the music brought cheer to a solemn occasion: "After the brother was six feet under the ground, the band would strike up one of those good ...