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Lil Hardin

also recorded as Lil Hardin-Armstrong

real name Lillian Hardin

Memphis, United States

Lil Hardin is credited on 723 releases across 231 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2022 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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723

Credits

231

Albums

8

Decades active

48

In collections

Biography

Lil Hardin Armstrong (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. She was born as Lillian Hardin in Memphis, Tennessee, where she grew up in a household with her grandmother, Priscilla Martin, a former slave from near Oxford, Mississippi. During her early years, Hardin was taught hymns, spirituals, and Classics on the piano. She was drawn to popular music and later blues, but could only listen or play these styles occasionally and covertly, because her mother, Dempsey (she called her "Decie"), a deeply religious woman, considered them "sinful".

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Credited work

723 releases · 231 albums · active 1950–2022

  • Performance · 1,288
  • Other credits · 11

Studios: North Sea Jazz Festival · Carnegie Hall · CBS Studios, New York · MPS-Studio, Villingen

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