Jazz Fest 2001Louis Armstrong by James Michalopoulos Twenty seventh in the series. When Louis Armstrong returned to New Orleans in 1931, nine years after he left to join King Oliver's Band in Chicago, he came back to a hero's welcome and found his way back to the black jazz clubs that jammed all night and spawned what became his American art form. For the centennial of Armstrong's birth, James Michalopoulos depicts Armstrong stepping out to cool himself from a