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Biography

Name: Lillian Hardin Armstrong
Variant Name: Lil Armstrong
Birth Date: February 3, 1898
Death Date: August 27, 1971
Place of Birth: Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Female
Occupations: musician, composer

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Biography of Lillian Hardin Armstrong
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American musician Lillian "Lil" Hardin Armstrong (1898-1971) ranks alongside Jelly Roll Morton and James P. Johnson as one of the great early jazz pianists. "I was just born to swing, that's all," she once said. "Call it what you want, blues, swing,...


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Lil Hardin Armstrong Information
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Lil Hardin Armstrong (born Lillian Hardin) (February 3 1898 – August 27 1971) was a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader, and the second wife of Louis Armstrong with whom she collaborated on many recordings in the 1920s. Hardin's...


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The Boston Globe
Lil Hardin Armstrong Bio Relates A Life Of Notes
03/13/2002: 755 words, approx. 3 pages
It has been well established that Lil Hardin Armstrong - prodigious pianist and songwriter, and Louis Armstrong's second wife - was the one who encouraged her husband to leave King Oliver's band and strike out on his own. But James L. Dickerson's new biography...
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Publishers Weekly
Just for a Thrill: Lil Hardin Armstrong, First Lady of Jazz. (Nonfiction). (book review)
02/18/2002: 263 words, approx. 1 pages
JAMES L. DICKERSON. Cooper Square, $26.95 (256p) ISBN 0-8154-1195-2 Dickerson (Goin' Back to Memphis) highlights jazz pianist Hardin's considerable but largely forgotten legacy in this well-meaning, meandering account of the "most important woman in jazz history." Hardin (1898-1971), who was playing with...
 


 

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