Ricky Riccardi

Ricky Riccardi is director of research collections for the Louis Armstrong House Museum, and author of What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years and Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong. In 2022, he won a GRAMMY Award for Best Album Notes for The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia and RCA Studio Sessions 1946-1966. He has delivered lectures on Armstrong at venues around the world and has taught Armstrong courses for jazz at Lincoln Center's Swing University and at Queens College, CUNY. Riccardi has a degree in jazz history and research from Rutgers University.