A picture of Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong was a 20th century American jazz musician.
When Commander William T. Riker activated his Bourbon Street Barn holographic program, set in an Earth jazz club in New Orleans, a photograph of Armstrong playing the trumpet was displayed on a wall. (TNG: "11001001")
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In the novelization of Far Beyond the Stars, Louis Armstrong often played at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City in the 1920s, where Benny Russell's father, Fox Russell, also performed.
In the Star Trek: Titan novel Taking Wing, Riker was a fan of Armstrong and all of his works and after being promoted to captain and given command of the USS Titan in 2379, he named one the ship's shuttlecrafts after Armstrong, though chief engineer Nidani Ledrah believed, at first that the shuttle to be named after astronaut Neil Armstrong. Riker also played Armstrong's version of "West End Blues" while he was "stargazing" using a holographic representation in the holotank of the Titan's stellar cartography laboratory.
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- Louis Armstrong at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Louis Armstrong at Wikipedia
- Louis Armstrong at the Internet Movie Database