Louis Armstrong

Funerals are meant to be solemn affairs, according to the Catholic Church in Australia, and only religious music is allowed.

Bruce Wallace reports on concerts being hosted by the Turkish Embassy in DC. They commemorate a series of ground-breaking concerts organized in the 1930’s by the sons of Ambassador Mehmet Ertegun. Ahmet Ertegun went on to form Atlantic Records.

The World’s Marco Werman tells anchor Lisa Mullins about the Japanese girl group Zukuna Sisters who played a poignantly uplifting version of “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong at the South by Southwest music festival.

Jazz aficionados have long spoken of an unrivaled collection of the greatest jazz musicians from 1930s. Now, a collection of their greatest live recordings have been discovered and stored at the National Jazz Museum. The Takeaway talks with the curator.

On the eve of the Democratic and Republican conventions, Blender Magazine polled presumptive Presidential nominees Barack Obama and John McCain for their favorite songs. While Obama and McCain may differ politically, they have one musical taste in common: a love for Ol’ Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra.