Louis Armstrong [Postage stamp].

Captions: Louis Armstrong / Jazz composer and trumpeter / 32 / USA / 1995.
Scott Catalogue: U.S. #2984 1995 32 cts Louis Armstrong.
One of a set of ten commemorative stamps issued by the United States Postal Service honoring ten American jazz musicians, issued in a pane of 20, on September 16, 1995 in Monterey, California, at the Monterey Jazz Festival. The stamps, designed by Dean Mitchell of Overland Park, Kansas, and Thomas Blackshear of Colorado Springs, Colorado, feature pianists Eubie Blake, Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Erroll Garner, and Thelonious Monk; saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, and John Coltrane; cornetist Louis Armstrong; and bassist Charles Mingus. The Jazz Musicians stamps were issued as the last addition of 1995 to the Postal Service's Legends of American Music Stamp series. Ashton-Potter (USA) Ltd. printed the stamps in the lithographic offset process. Cf. the online catalog of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, object no. 1996.2066.228.