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By Ronnie Littlejohn photo: Yoni Brook When Ricky Riccardi was growing up in Toms River, N.J., in the 1990s, most kids his age were digging George Michael or A Tribe Called Quest. Riccardi, meanwhile, was into classic Motown and vintage movies from Hollywood’s classic era. Then one day in 1995 at the age of 15, he discovered Louis Armstrong. He became mesmerized and slightly obsessed. He devoured everything he could get his hands on about the famed New Orleans jazz musician. Riccardi went on to earn a master’s degree in jazz history and research from Rutgers University in 2005, and he became director of research collections at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in the Corona neighbourhood of Queens in New York, the home where Armstrong spent his final years. Riccardi also teaches a graduate course on the celebrated trumpeter.

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