Museum Showcases an Unseen Louis Armstrong Trove — artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com

The Louis Armstrong House Museum, housed in the brick building in Corona, Queens, where the great jazz trumpeter lived for the last 28 years of his life, has just opened an exhibition of Armstrong memorabilia from the expansive collection of Jack Bradley, a sailor (and sometime jazz club owner and manager) who befriended Armstrong in 1959, and amassed what is said to be the world’s largest private collection of Armstrongiana. The museum acquired the collection in 2005, but only recently finished cataloging and preserving the materials, which it has never shown before. The exhibition runs through March 29.

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