Inspired by jazz pioneers Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton and their colleagues, David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Eternity Band breathes life and passion into America’s own great art form.

Since 1980, this acoustically electrifying group has appeared nationally and internationally in varied settings – currently in the twenty-fourth year of its open-ended weekly Wednesday evening engagement at New York City’s Birdland, at the 2021 Newport Jazz Festival, at Lincoln Center’s Midsummer’s Night Swing, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, at Jazz in July at the 92nd Street Y, at Lionel Hampton’s New Orleans-style funeral procession, and at four appearances at Scotland’s Nairn International Jazz Festival.  Today David (leading, tuba) is bringing Jim Fryer (trombone), Will Anderson (reeds), Alex Raderman (drums), Ben Polcer (trumpet),  and Mark Shane (piano).