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Lil Hardin Armstrong

Lil Hardin Armstrong

HOT MISS LIL and LOUIS ARMSTRONG

Even before 1920 Lil Hardin, “Hot Miss Lil” as she was sometimes called, was the most sought after jazz pianist in Chicago, playing with the first New Orleans jazz band to perform there, Freddie Keppard’s Creole Jazz Band.

As second wife of Louis Armstrong in the mid-1920s Lil Hardin Armstrong launched and managed his solo career. And as musical partner Lil worked with Louis getting his ideas down on paper; arranging the sessions as she had done in King Oliver’s band; publishing the music; providing a strong rhythmic foundation playing piano; promoting his stardom, and building up his confindence. Her tireless efforts and craftsmanship made possible Louis’ great HOT FIVE and HOT SEVEN records .

Additionally, “Miss Lil” had real show-business savvy: she always managed her own bands on the side and became a mover and shaker in the world of jazz.

Even before their marriage broke up, Lil graciously stepped aside

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Lil Hardin Armstrong (1898-1971) was a pianist, composer, singer, and bandleader who helped introduce America to jazz music. In the 1920s she was known as “Hot Miss Lil.” Today Lil Hardin Armstrong is noteworthy as one of the most prominent women in early jazz. Lil was one of the only female band members of her time, she played on many of the first jazz recordings ever made and wrote many of the early songs of the jazz era. Lil Hardin Armstrong was a driving force in the success of her husband, Louis Armstrong’s career. She wrote songs for him, performed with him, and her work as his promoter made him an international star.

In the world of jazz in the 1920s women, especially black women, were relegated to singing or dancing in the chorus line. But Lil Hardin had a serious career as a respected jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader long before her marriage to Louis Armstrong.

Born in 1898, Lillian Hardin grew up in Memphis. She studied piano at Mrs. (Julia) Hook’s School of Music and spent three years at Fisk University. But she felt pulled to Chicago in 1918, wh

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Lil Hardin Armstrong: Profiles in Jazz

Lil Hardin Armstrong had a long career as a pianist, songwriter and occasional singer but she is chiefly remembered today for her work during a four year period (1923-27) when she often worked and recorded with her husband, Louis Armstrong. However that is a bit unfair for there was quite a bit more to her career than playing with King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band and Armstrong’s Hot Five and Seven.

Lillian Hardin was born Feb. 3, 1898 in Memphis, Tennessee. She had her first piano lessons when she was in third grade and she attended Mrs. Hook’s School Of Music. Hardin showed plenty of potential, studying music for three years at Fisk University in Nashville with hopes of becoming a classical pianist. However that was an unrealistic dream for an African-American woman at the time. Fortunately she also had talent as a blues and New Orleans-style jazz pianist. After she graduated, she moved to Chicago in Aug. 1918 where, due to her excellent sight-reading ability, she found work as a sheet music demonstrator at Jones’ Music Store.

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