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Lil "Brown Gal" Armstrong & Her All Star Band - East Town Boogie ~1945

Lillian Hardin was born on February 3, 1898 in Memphis, Tennessee. Raised by both her mother and grandmother, a former slave, she grew up learning hymns, spirituals and classical music on the piano, however she took a natural liking to pop music and blues of the day. She first learned piano from her third grade teacher, followed by Mrs. Hook's School of Music, but graduated to formal musical education when she attended Fisk University in Nashville. She went back to Memphis after school in 1917, but moved to Chicago with her mother and step-father in August 1918. Her advancing skill with the piano got her a job as a sheet music demonstrator at Jones Music Store. Noticing that the $3 a week she was making was a far cry from the $22.50 she could be making with cabaret bandleader Lawrence Duhé, she switched jobs under the condition her parents were only to know she played piano at a dancing school. The band rose quickly through the circuit, getting booking at the De Luxe Cafe, and then on to Dreamland. Eventually, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band replaced Duhé's, but Oliver specifically asked Hardin to stay and play for him, which she did for 1921, but when Oliver's band got a booking in Los Angeles, she stayed in Chicago. When Oliver got back in 1922, she rejoined the band. It was around this time that Oliver sent for Louis Armstrong to join as second cornetist. Fast forward and the two were married on February 5, 1924. It would be Lillian who would push Louis to strive for better and go out on his own and in September of the same year, Louis would leave Oliver for Fletcher Henderson's band in New York City. Lillian would stay in Chicago, still under Oliver for a little while before starting her own band. When her band got the job at the Dreamland Cafe, she called for her husband to return home and Okeh Records decided to make a series of recordings in November 1925 under his name, calling it the Armstrong "Hot Five" recordings, with his wife at the piano, Kid Ory on trombone, Johnny Dodds on clarinet and Johnny St. Cyr on banjo. The late 1920's brought a rift between Louis and Lillian due to class differences and money issues. She took some time for herself in New York at the New York College of Music where she earned her post-graduate diploma in 1929. The couple would separate in 1931 and due to some weird relationship drama wouldn't divorce until 1938. Through the 1930's, she would continue to bill herself as "Mrs. Louis Armstrong", leading an all-girl orchestra and a mixed-gender big band which would broadcast nationally on NBC radio stations. She recorded for Decca as a swing vocalist and provided piano accompaniment for many other singers. In the 1940's and early 1950's, she worked mostly as a soloist which makes her recordings with Black & White Recording Co. even more special. Today's song is called "East Town Boogie", a song of Lil's own creation. It featured her on the piano, Jonah Jones on trumpet, J. C. Higginbotham on trombone, Al Gibson and clarinet, Baby Dodds on drums and Sylvester Hickman on bass. The recording took place in Chicago on January 9, 1945. She continued to work and perform around Chicago and collaborated with many musicians including Red Saunders, Joe Williams, Oscar Brown Jr., and Little Brother Montgomery. She put out a biographical narrative on record, and would appear on a couple LPs in the 1960's highlighting Chicago Jazz. She began writing an autobiography but changed her mind in fear it would paint Louis Armstrong in a bad light. When Louis died in 1971, she continued work on her autobiography, but the following month while performing at a televised memorial concert for Armstrong, she collapsed at the piano and died of a heart attack on the way to the hospital. It was discovered afterward that what she had written of her autobiography had gone missing.