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Ricky Riccardi

@rickyriccardi

GRAMMY winning Director of Research Collections for the Louis Armstrong House Museum and author of Heart Full of Rhythm and What a Wonderful World.

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Best of luck to @‌RickyRiccardi, who's up for a #Grammy tonight for Best Album Notes. Find his book on the early years of Louis Armstrong here: oxford.ly/3Ea7Q6T

Best of luck to @‌RickyRiccardi, who's up for a #Grammy tonight for Best Album Notes. 

Find his book on the early years of Louis Armstrong here: oxford.ly/3Ea7Q6T
Lauralee Yeary @theweaknessinme.bsky.social (@theweaknessnme) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What a fabulous way to start the week: Happy publication day to Stomp Off, Let's Go by Ricky Riccardi! Happy birthday, Li'l Hardin Armstrong! And congratulations on the SECOND GRAMMY AWARD, Ricky Riccardi !!!!

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Featuring an unearthed interview with Beatrice "Mama Lucy" Armstrong, and reflections on Armstrong's mentor, Joe "King" Oliver, “Stomp Off, Let's Go” reveals Louis Armstrong’s early influences and meteoric rise to fame. Learn more: oxford.ly/4gofd8m

Featuring an unearthed interview with Beatrice "Mama Lucy" Armstrong, and reflections on Armstrong's mentor, Joe "King" Oliver, “Stomp Off, Let's Go” reveals Louis Armstrong’s early influences and meteoric rise to fame. 

Learn more: oxford.ly/4gofd8m
Queens College | The City University of New York (@qc_news) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Warmest congratulations to Ricky Riccardi, director of research collections at the Louis Louis Armstrong Museum, who last Sunday won his second Recording Academy / GRAMMYs Grammy. It was for album notes he wrote for Centennial, featuring King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and other artists.

Warmest congratulations to <a href="/RickyRiccardi/">Ricky Riccardi</a>, director of research collections at the Louis <a href="/ArmstrongHouse/">Louis Armstrong</a> Museum, who last Sunday won his second <a href="/RecordingAcad/">Recording Academy / GRAMMYs</a> Grammy. It was for album notes he wrote for Centennial, featuring King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and other artists.
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Congratulations to Ricky Riccardi, director of research collections at Louis Armstrong, who last Sunday won his second Recording Academy / GRAMMYs GRAMMY! It was for album notes he wrote for Centennial, featuring King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and other artists. 🎶

Congratulations to <a href="/RickyRiccardi/">Ricky Riccardi</a>, director of research collections at <a href="/ArmstrongHouse/">Louis Armstrong</a>, who last Sunday won his second <a href="/RecordingAcad/">Recording Academy / GRAMMYs</a> GRAMMY! It was for album notes he wrote for Centennial, featuring King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and other artists. 🎶
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Louis Armstrong’s rise to fame was nothing short of revolutionary. Explore his career through twelve tracks that reshaped jazz as we know it, in this blog post and accompanying playlist by author of “Stomp Off, Let’s Go,” Ricky Riccardi.

Louis Armstrong’s rise to fame was nothing short of revolutionary. Explore his career through twelve tracks that reshaped jazz as we know it, in this blog post and accompanying playlist by author of “Stomp Off, Let’s Go,” <a href="/RickyRiccardi/">Ricky Riccardi</a>.
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.Ricky Riccardi delivers an acceptance speech after winning Best Album Notes for King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band & Various Artists’s 'Centennial' at the 2025 #GRAMMYs. grammy.com/series-or-coll…

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I always enjoy getting to catch up with my bud Ricky Riccardi, who just won a Grammy for King Oliver liner notes. His just-released third Louis Armstrong book, 'Stomp Off, Let's Go,' is indispensable. Here's our recent conversation for UK Jazz News ukjazznews.com/ricky-riccardi/

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Congratulations Ricky Riccardi on your recent Grammy Award win for Best Album Notes for "Centennial." Discover the revelatory origin story of one of America's most beloved musicians, Louis Armstrong in “Stomp Off, Let's Go,” by Ricky Riccardi, here: oxford.ly/4gEE6N4

Congratulations <a href="/RickyRiccardi/">Ricky Riccardi</a> on your recent Grammy Award win for Best Album Notes for "Centennial." 

Discover the revelatory origin story of one of America's most beloved musicians, Louis Armstrong in “Stomp Off, Let's Go,” by Ricky Riccardi, here: oxford.ly/4gEE6N4
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How did Louis Armstrong become Louis Armstrong? Find out with Ricky Riccardi 's “Stomp Off, Let's Go”, which we’re giving away 10 copies of on Goodreads. Enter here: oxford.ly/3PVlU75

How did Louis Armstrong become Louis Armstrong? Find out with <a href="/RickyRiccardi/">Ricky Riccardi</a> 's “Stomp Off, Let's Go”, which we’re giving away 10 copies of on <a href="/goodreads/">Goodreads</a>. 

Enter here: oxford.ly/3PVlU75
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Before he became a household name, Louis Armstrong was a young innovator pushing jazz into new territory. This blog post and accompanying playlist explores twelve tracks that defined his career—listen along while you read: oxford.ly/3EIhXjE

Before he became a household name, Louis Armstrong was a young innovator pushing jazz into new territory. 
This blog post and accompanying playlist explores twelve tracks that defined his career—listen along while you read: oxford.ly/3EIhXjE
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The great Louis Armstrong finally has a worthy biography — "Stomp Off, Let’s Go" could easily be two volumes, adding to Ricky Riccardi’s series on one of the central figures of 20th-century culture. buff.ly/4hXt4nr

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Why Louis Armstrong is the defining figure of the 20th century. Ricky Riccardi's new book focuses on how Armstrong got to make his recordings in the 1920s – some of the most influential music ever created bigissue.com/culture/music/…

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'Author Ricky Riccardi says Louis Armstrong's innovations as a trumpeter and vocalist helped set the soundtrack of the 20th century. His book is Stomp Off, Let's Go.' How Louis Armstrong became the first Black pop star | NPR npr.org/2025/07/04/nx-…

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Leading Louis Armstrong expert Ricky Riccardi, of the Louis Armstrong Museum (administered by Queens College), chats with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about how Armstrong became the first Black pop star. danny miller npr.org/transcripts/nx…