Ricky Riccardi is the director of research collections at the Louis Armstrong House Museum, located in the Corona section of the Queens in New York. In 2022, Ricky won a Grammy Award for “Best Album Notes”  The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia and RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-1966 on Mosaic Records.

In this “Catching Up With” episode, we find out what he’s been up to and also learn about the newly opened Louis Armstrong Center, located directly across the street from Armstrong’s fabled home-turned-museum.