Just for a Thrill: Lil Hardin Armstrong, First Lady of Jazz by James L. Dickerson
Just for a Thrill: Lil Hardin Armstrong, First Lady of Jazz

James L. Dickerson

Just for a Thrill: Lil Hardin Armstrong, First Lady of Jazz

James L. Dickerson

243 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography music informative medium-paced
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"Hot Miss Lil" Hardin was the star pianist of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band when, in 1922, a trumpet player named Louis Armstrong joined the band in Chicago. The educated and polished Hardin was decidedly unimpressed with Armstrong's lack of soph...

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