July 6, 2020
7:00PM
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Jazz Arts Project is pleased to present "Mondays with Mooche" - a weekly curation of lectures, Q & A panels, and listening sessions featuring noted jazz luminaries and surprise guests hosted by Jazz Arts Project Artistic Director, Joe "Mooche" Muccioli.
Monday, July 6, 7:00 pm
Ricky Riccardi, Director of Research Collections
Louis Armstrong House Museum
Ricky Riccardi is the 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. He runs the online blog, “The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong,” at dippermouth.blogspot.com and has given lectures on Armstrong at venues around the world, including the Institute of Jazz Studies, the Satchmo Summerfest, the Bristol International Jazz and Blues Festival and the Monterey Jazz Festival.
In the fall of 2015, he taught a “Music of Louis Armstrong” graduate course at Queens College, in addition to hosting various listening parties at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has recently co-produced Satchmo at Symphony Hall 65th Anniversary: The Complete Concert for Universal Music and Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings of Louis Armstrong and the All Stars for Mosaic Records. He is also a jazz pianist based out of Toms River, NJ and received his Master’s in Jazz History and Research from Rutgers University.
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