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In a November 16, 2020 interview with Jerry Jazz Musician, Ricky Riccardi, author of Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong, discusses his vital book and Armstrong’s enormous and underappreciated achievements during the era he led his big band.
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Ricky Riccardi, Director of Research Collections for the Louis Armstrong House Museum, and author of Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong (Oxford)
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…..To most jazz enthusiasts, Louis Armstrong’s greatest works are his mid-1920s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens sessions that resulted in historic recordings like “Cornet Chop Suey,” “Heebie Jeebies,” “Potato Head Blues,” “Weatherbird,” and, of course, the extraordinary “West End Blues,” on which Armstrong’s opening cadenza is considered a defining moment of early jazz.
On these recordings, Armstrong invented the art of the jazz solo and set the stage for the way jazz wou
