Ricky Riccardi

Ricky Riccardi on Louis Armstrong

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
June 21, 2011

Ricky Riccardi's much anticipated What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years (Pantheon) is out today. Ricky is an Armstrong scholar and archivist for the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, N.Y. He also writes the blog The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong. [Pictured: Ricky Riccardi] Here's a taste from Ricky's new book: Armstrong's longtime physician Alexander Schiff agreed that the engagement [at the Waldorf-Astoria in 1970] should have been canceled. “Even at the end, when his ...
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