"What a Wonderful World," by Ricky Riccardi

I’ve written previously, here, about Ricky Riccardi, who is the Project Archivist at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, and who writes a Louis Armstrong-related blog, titled "The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong."

(http://www.dippermouth.blogspot.com/)

Riccardi’s book about Armstrong, What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years, is about to be published. Originally scheduled to be brought out last year, it is being released by Pantheon Books on June 21^st.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307378446?tag=rickricc-20&camp

Terry Teachout, author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong, says this, of Riccardi’s book:  “The story of Louis Armstrong’s later years is the great untold tale of postwar jazz. Now Ricky Riccardi has told it to perfection. What a Wonderful World is a unique and indispensable landmark in Armstrong scholarship, a weathervane that will point the way to all future writings on his life and work.” 

Here is one of my previous posts about Riccardi, and Louis Armstrong:  

http://andrewleefielding.blogspot.com/2009/12/louis-armstrong-1950.html