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Ricky Riccardi. Photo by Brendan Castne

Ricky Riccardi talks back

July 30, 2019 by: John Wirt

Ricky Riccardi’s devotion to Louis Armstrong began when he was a high school freshman in Toms River, New Jersey. Then 15, the future director of research collections at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in New York caught Armstrong’s cameo in The Glenn Miller Story. Already a fan of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Riccardi heard the similarities between Armstrong and Preservati...

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