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    Fri, Jul 3, 2026, 7:30PM

    Louis Armstrong Hot Five Centennial Celebration

    Presented in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center 
    Friends Field
    All Tickets $44 

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    Overview

    The music Louis Armstrong created in the 1920s with his small group, the Hot Five, remains among the most influential, timeless, and joyous in the history of American music. Under the auspices of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, and on the eve of what Armstrong always claimed to be his birthday (the Fourth of July), trumpeter Alphonso Horne will lead an all-star ensemble of today’s finest jazz musicians in celebration of the 100th anniversary of this groundbreaking group. Hosted by two-time Grammy Award winner Ricky Riccardi, the evening honors the recordings that transformed jazz from a collective style into a soloist’s art form—forever changing the course of popular music. While Armstrong is celebrated worldwide as the beloved entertainer behind classics like “What a Wonderful World” and “Hello, Dolly,” it was these revolutionary recordings from a century ago that reshaped the sound and future of jazz. 

    Artists

    Alphonso Horne, trumpet, vocals & co-host
    Evan Arntzen, clarinet 
    Ron Wilkins, trombone & vocals 
    Ricky Riccardi, piano & co-host
    Charles Goold, drummer

    Rain or Shine Policy: All events at Caramoor take place rain or shine. In the event of inclement weather, this performance will move indoors or under a covered space.

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    About the Artists

    Alphonso Horne is one of the most sought-after musicians today. Known for his high level of musicianship, Horne has performed with some of the leading musicians in jazz including, touring with Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center (2013), performing on the PBS Special: Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett (2014), playing in the house band of the Late Show with Jon Batiste, and playing on Grammy nominated albums (Jamison, 2015; My Favorite Things, 2015). Horne was also featured in the 2019 film Bolden, playing a cameo role. 

    In 2010, Horne received his BM at Florida State University.  Immediately after graduating FSU he was a member of the Disney All-American College Band before he would attend Juilliard for his Masters in Jazz (MM ’13). In that same year Wynton Marsalis would include him in a list of 16 young jazz musicians entitled, “Wynton’s Picks: Who’s Got Next”.  

    While at Juilliard, Horne began performing in various musical productions, both on Broadway and off. In 2013, he was a part of the Tony Award winning Broadway production After Midnight (2013) with world-class cast members such as Fantasia Barrino, Dulé Hill, and Patti LaBelle. He was also a member of the orchestra for Tony nominated Shuffle Along (2016) with another great cast including Savion Glover and Rhiannon Giddens (who he would later begin touring with in 2017). Horne’s talents were also seen outside being an orchestra member as he was the Music Director for Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic (2015), and Assistant Director for The Last Time Musical (2015).  

    Horne leads an active career as a sideman. He has been a part of many projects including, the Cab Calloway Band (2014), touring with Allen Stone (2015), playing on Jamison Ross’ (Jamison, 2015) and Joey Alexander’s (My Favorite Things, 2015) Grammy Nominated albums, performing with the Count Basie Orchestra (2016), began touring with Rhiannon Giddens (2017), and most recently with Rihanna at the Video Music Award show in 2017. Horne also was the producer for Nancy Harrow’s album The Song is All (2016).  

    An active performing career has given Horne the opportunity to perform at many world-class venues and jazz festivals around the world including, Madison Square Garden (VMA Awards 2017), Umbria, Monterey, Newpor, Montreal, Vancouver, London, and many more. 

    Currently Horne is involved with many projects including, the annual Savannah Swing Central and Music Festival, where he commissioned an arrangement for this 2018 season, playing with Sammy Miller and the Congregation, who just finished a residency at Ars Nova (2017). As a leader, he is the bandleader of an early jazz band: Gotham Kings. Gotham Kings performs regularly at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Ginny’s Supper Club in Harlem, New York. He is currently producing his original show “Mother Kofi: The Tale of an African Princess”. 

      Ricky Riccardi, Director of Research Collections for the Louis Armstrong House Museum, is the author of three books on Armstrong, including his most recent, Stomp Off, Let’s Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong. 

      Riccardi  has also written the liner notes for over a dozen Armstrong releases, including co-producing multiple reissues for Universal Music and Mosaic Records. In 2022, he won a GRAMMY for “Best Album Notes” for Mosaic’s “Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia and RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-1966. He initially encountered Louis Armstrong in 1995 when he saw him perform “Basin Street Blues.” Riccardi considers himself not just a historian but also an advocate for Armstrong’s values. He still feels the same sense of joy and wonder that moved him so much as a teenager. 

        Charles Goold, is one of New York City's hardest working jazz drummers of his generation. Being the son of jazz tenor saxophonist, Ned Goold and a Haitian mother, Goold has used both experiences in his upbringing to form a style of jazz blending modern hard bop stylings with traditional Haitian and Afro Caribbean rhythms.

        Goold graduated from The Juilliard School and was awarded The Juilliard Career Advancement Fellowship Grant in May 2017. Following his graduation, Goold performed with the best in the jazz industry such as Wynton Marsalis and The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Javon Jackson, Johnny O'Neal, Steve Nelson.

        His debut album “RHYTHM IN CONTRAST”, released in February 2022 on the La Reserve Label, highlights a wide variety of these influences and was critically acclaimed being reviewed in The New York Times and featured in playlists and Radio Stations like TSF Jazz, Spotify (All New Jazz, Jazz X-Press, Jazz Today) Amazon Music (front picture of Fresh Jazz), Tidal (Out There) and Apple Music(Jazz Currents).

        His sophomore album, “TRIPTYCH LESPRI”, set to release June 28th 2024, further explores the depths of Haitian rhythms and compositions, featuring his touring quartet as well as a collaboration with an ensemble consisting of New York jazz musicians all with Haitian diasporic roots. It was written up in the The UK Times and his version of “Caravan” garnered over 500k streams worldwide.

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