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blackhistoryday: Lillian “Lil” Harding Armstrong joined “King” Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band as pianist and is believed to have been the first woman to enter the jazz field. She was the first woman to play piano with jazz bands and led many of the finest black bands from the 1920s on, including the Dreamland Syncopators (also known as Lil’s Hot Shots). Born in Memphis, she studied at Fist University but moved to Chicago with her family and never returned to graduate. Armstrong earned a teacher’s certificate from Chicago College of Music and a post-graduate diploma from New York College of Music. “Miss Lil,” as she was called, married Louis Armstrong in 1924 and was a positive influence on his career. Source: Black Firsts: Groundbreaking Events in African American History Via Every Month Should be Black History Month

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Lillian “Lil” Harding Armstrong joined “King” Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band as pianist and is believed to have been the first woman to enter the jazz field. She was the first woman to play piano with jazz bands and led many of the finest black bands from the 1920s on, including the Dreamland Syncopators (also known as Lil’s Hot Shots). Born in Memphis, she studied at Fist University but moved to Chicago with her family and never returned to graduate. Armstrong earned a teacher’s certificate from Chicago College of Music and a post-graduate diploma from New York College of Music. “Miss Lil,” as she was called, married Louis Armstrong in 1924 and was a positive influence on his career.

Source: Black Firsts: Groundbreaking Events in African American History


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