{"id":2747,"date":"2011-08-01T22:01:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T05:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2011-08-01T22:41:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T05:41:20","slug":"book-riccardi-on-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/08\/book-riccardi-on-armstrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Riccardi On Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ricky Riccard<\/strong>i, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWhat-Wonderful-World-Magic-Armstrongs%2Fdp%2F0307378446%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1309317946%26sr%3D1-1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Later Years<\/em><\/a> (Pantheon). <\/p>\n<p>In the eulogy at Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funeral in 1971, Fred Robbins said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He was truly the only one of his kind, a titanic figure in his and our time, a veritable Picasso. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Riccardi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Riccardi.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Riccardi\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Riccardi.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Riccardi-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Riccardi-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a>A Stravinsky. A Casals. A Louis Armstrong.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Many of Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s critics charged that his artistic stature diminished after 1931, 1940, 1956\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6(pick a year). Riccardi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s meticulous research and engaging narrative put that notion to rest. Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s professionalism, toughness, humor and, most of all, the spirit of his music, emanate from the book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pages. This is an invaluable addition to the Armstrong bibliography&#151;and a great read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Riccardi, What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Later Years (Pantheon). In the eulogy at Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funeral in 1971, Fred Robbins said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He was truly the only one of his kind, a titanic figure in his and our time, a veritable Picasso. A Stravinsky. A Casals. A Louis Armstrong.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Many of Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-recommendations","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}