”When I heard the two knocks, I struck as many the keys as I possibly could at one time, because, that way, I thought to myself, whatever they’d be in, I’d be in it, too!”
Chris Albertson, who, as a producer, revived Lil Hardin Armstrong’s career around 1960 by recording her for Riverside’s Living Legends series, brings us a wonderful account in Lil’s own words of how she landed her first professional jazz job with the New Orleans Creole Jazz Band.
-Michael Cuscuna
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