Ricky Riccardi News

The Louis Armstrong House Museum's Collection has made the newly released Satchmo At Symphony Hall / 65th Anniversary: The Complete Performances truly complete. Pulled from the Museum's Gosta Hagglof Collection never-before released material has created this newly expanded, 2-CD version of the album celebrating the 65th anniversary of the original recording.

On November 29, the British singer-songwriter used his website to dissuade fans from buying his own new boxed set, The Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook, noting that its suggested retail price of $329.99 "appears to be either a misprint or a satire." Instead, his message urged them to make a different purchase. "If you should really want to buy something special for your loved one at this time of seasonal giving," he wrote, "we can whole-heartedly recommend, Ambassador Of Jazz - a cute little imitation suitcase, covered in travel stickers and embossed with the name 'Satchmo' but more importantly containing TEN re-mastered albums by one of the most beautiful and loving revolutionaries who ever lived - Louis Armstrong. The box should be available for under one hundred and fifty American dollars and includes a number of other tricks and treats. Frankly, the music is vastly superior."

Armstrong fans and jazz lovers are invited to come celebrate the highly anticipated Armstrong biography written by today's top Armstrong scholar, Ricky Riccardi.

Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM) announces the programming for the 2011 Summer Season. Since opening to the public in 2003, LAHM - a National Historic Landmark - has been a staple of arts and culture for the Queens community and beyond.

On the surface, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald may seem to be a pair of musical artists with vastly different approaches to song. Armstrong's gravely voice might be viewed as diametrically opposed to the perfect pitch beauty of Ella's vocal instrument. But if we look, or rather hear more deeply, we discover not only musical conceptions that cooperate without antagonism, but a profound sensibility of swing at the heart of what makes jazz a universally acclaimed idiom around the world. Their collaborations on the Verve label are masterpieces to be experienced time and time again, with new revelations surfacing upon each listen. Your time will be well spent, and your very soul enriched tonight. We promise!

Join host Ricky Riccardi for our annual PopsFest! Louis Armstrong was invited to visit Central and Eastern Europe for four weeks in the spring of 1965, and he barnstormed through Prague, Leipzig, East Berlin, West Berlin, Frankfurt, Bucharest, Belgrade, Zagreb, Liubljana, back to East Berlin, then on to Magdeburg, Erfurt, Schwerin, and East Berlin again--an itinerary that would have felled anyone without Armstrong's enormous reserves. In June 1965, only two months after his return home, Armstrong was off to Eastern Europe again, and in Budapest 91,000 persons jammed the NEP Stadium to hear him play.

Join host Ricky Riccardi for our annual PopsFest! Louis Armstrong was invited to visit Central and Eastern Europe for four weeks in the spring of 1965, and he barnstormed through Prague, Leipzig, East Berlin, West Berlin, Frankfurt, Bucharest, Belgrade, Zagreb, Liubljana, back to East Berlin, then on to Magdeburg, Erfurt, Schwerin, and East Berlin again--an itinerary that would have felled anyone without Armstrong's enormous reserves. In June 1965, only two months after his return home, Armstrong was off to Eastern Europe again, and in Budapest 91,000 persons jammed the NEP Stadium to hear him play.

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem has announced their schedule for August 9-15, featuring three distinct Jazz events. For more information about these events and all upcoming events at the National Jazz Museum, please visit http://www.jmih.org/

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem has announced their schedule for August 9-15, featuring three distinct Jazz events. For more information about these events and all upcoming events at the National Jazz Museum, please visit http://www.jmih.org/

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem announces its August 2010 Schedule. This month of public programs presented by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem features retrospectives (Louis Armstrong and Hank Jones), discussions with two of the most prominent and influential contemporary saxophonists (Joe Lovano and Steve Coleman) as well as a talk with top jazz journalist Bill Milkowski, and live performances that riff on the connection between visual art and jazz, by trumpeter Marcus Printup and trombonist Ryan Keberle at the Rubin Museum of Art, and the NJMH All Stars at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Whether your taste leans toward the historical and traditional, or to the futuristic and cutting edge, you'll find it this month. Mark your calendar and bring some friends!

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem announces its August 2010 Schedule. This month of public programs presented by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem features retrospectives (Louis Armstrong and Hank Jones), discussions with two of the most prominent and influential contemporary saxophonists (Joe Lovano and Steve Coleman) as well as a talk with top jazz journalist Bill Milkowski, and live performances that riff on the connection between visual art and jazz, by trumpeter Marcus Printup and trombonist Ryan Keberle at the Rubin Museum of Art, and the NJMH All Stars at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Whether your taste leans toward the historical and traditional, or to the futuristic and cutting edge, you'll find it this month. Mark your calendar and bring some friends!