Phoebe Jacobs, a longtime jazz publicist who also ran the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation and helped establish Armstrong’s Queens, N.Y., home as a museum, died April 9. She was 93. A cause was not disclosed but she had been ill in a New York hospital for two weeks.
During her career, Jacobs served as publicist for a plethora of jazz greats, including Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee and Benny Goodman.
Phoebe Jacobs, Jazz Publicist, Dies at 93
Also headed the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation
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