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Jazz Beat 53 - Ricky Riccardi and Tom Reney, Part Two
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:56:09
Publish Date: 2020-11-23 15:49:36
Description: In Part Two of Tom Reney's conversation with Ricky Riccardi about his new book, Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong, Riccardi discusses Armstrong's skirmishes with Prohibition-era gangsters and managers; the trumpeter's triumphant return to his birthplace of New Orleans in 1931; and the massive archive of self-documentation in letters, scrapbooks, and tape recordings that Armstrong left for posterity.
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