Bio : Louis Armstrong House Museum
ABOUT LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM
The Louis Armstrong House Museum is a three building campus, encompassing Armstrong’s historic home, Armstrong Center, and Selma’s Place – the donated home of Selma Heraldo, a close friend and neighbor of the Armstrongs. The museum offers guided tours of the trumpeter’s historic home, giving visitors an inside look into the life he and his wife Lucille led alongside the Corona Queens community. The Center champions musicians and artists alike through their Armstrong Now Artist-in-Residence Program - where artists are given the opportunity to research and rehearse new work based on thematic content provided from the Armstrong Archives. Previous residents include Samara Joy, Immanuel Wilkins, Soul Science Lab, Steven Salcedo and more. Moreover, the Center integrates their work with local Queens residents through community activations including a year-round young trumpet learning program and their Justice Arts initiative for formerly incarcerated youth. For ticketing and more information, visit www.louisarmstronghouse.org. LAHM administers the historic house under a long-term license agreement with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and Queens College.
ABOUT REGINA BAIN
Regina Bain is an artist and educator serving as the Executive Director of the Louis Armstrong House Museum. In the midst of the reverberations of slavery, Jim Crow laws and the great migration, Armstrong became America’s first Black popular music icon. The Museum preserves his home and archives and develops programs grounded in the values of artistic excellence, education and community. This year, Ms. Bain will open the new 14,000 sq. foot Armstrong Center housing a multimedia exhibit curated by Jason Moran, a 75-seat performance space, and the 60,000-piece Armstrong Archives — the largest archives of any jazz musician and one of the largest of any Black musician. Previous to her appointment at LAHM, Ms. Bain served as Associate Vice President of the Posse Foundation — a national leadership and college access program where she supported site directors in all aspects of their role and led staff training on the program areas of leadership, academic excellence and cross cultural dialogue. Bain’s efforts helped to increase Posse’s national student graduation rates for four consecutive years. Bain is currently the co-chair of Culture @3’s anti-racism subcommittee and recently served on the Yale Board of Governors.
ABOUT JASON MORAN
Pianist, composer and artist Jason Moran is the Artistic Director for Jazz at The Kennedy Center. Moran studied with pianists Jaki Byard, Andrew Hill and Muhal Richard Abrams and began his solo recording career in 1998. He has released 18 solo recordings for Blue Note Records and his own label Yes Records. In 2010 Moran was named a MacArthur Fellow as well as a Doris Duke Fellow. He scored Ava Duvernay's Selma and The 13th. His work with dance companies include Lines Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence Dance Company and the Martha Graham Dance Company. His visual art is in museum collections across the nation and he curated the permanent exhibition for the Louis Armstrong House Museum. In 2022 He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was recently awarded the 2023 German Jazz Prize for Pianist of the Year. He currently teaches at the New England Conservatory in Boston.