Lil Hardin Armstrong
Lillian "Lil " Hardin Armstrong ( born February 3, 1898 in Memphis, Tennessee; † August 27, 1971 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American jazz pianist, singer - songwriter and. Your biographer James L. Dickerson, she worked as a composer and as a person behind the scenes, one of the most important people in the development of early jazz.
Life and work
As a child, played the orphan organ in the church. Lillian Hardin studied music at the well-known for promoting African-American musical tradition Fisk University in Nashville. Then they led before in a music business pianos and musical notes. There was also once for a showdown with Jelly Roll Morton. In the late 1910s she began her will despite family veto by and worked as a jazz musician: She played in 1918 at Lawrence Duhe, where she appeared with Freddie Keppard, the New Orleans Jazz should have been known since 1916 as a good interpreter of the then new, and then at Joe King Oliver. In his Creole Jazz Band, she met Louis Armstrong, whom she married in 1924. Hardin wrote songs for his Hot Five ensemble and played the piano from 1925 to 1927 at this legendary studio band that has recorded under the name Lill 's Hot Shots. One more well-known titles of Hardin 's Struttin 'with Some Barbecue. Louis was so well known, but it was hardly noticed. " I stood at the foot of the ladder, grabbed her and saw him climb to the top ," she later summed up their role. The Marriage of Armstrong was not happy long and in 1938, after six years of separation, divorce. In the following years she could not always build on the early success despite numerous recordings and radio appearances. Your band from the early 30s, which she headed with the baton, was on billboards than that of "Mrs. Louis Armstrong, " containing small " Mrs. " markets, which led to confusion of the trumpeter Jonah Jones with Satchmo. They also played again with Freddie Keppard and Johnny Dodds. Partial Lillian Hardin also worked as an arranger for other bands, or supplemented them in the studio or on tour. Later she appeared in Chicago often as a solo pianist and singer. But she also worked in other professions: She taught French and designed dresses.
In addition to Struttin 'with Some Barbecue Hardin wrote songs like Do not Jive Me, Two Deuces, Knee Drops, Doin' the Suzie -Q, Just for a Thrill ( with Ray Charles in 1959 had a hit ) Clip joint or Bad Boy ( 1978 hit for Ringo Starr ). She was not only one of the first major pianists, composers and bandleaders interior in the early days of jazz; She was also the driving force behind the career of the young Louis Armstrong. Your memoirs she took on board, under the title Satchmo and me. She died as she gave in 1971 a memorial concert for him in Chicago.