Lil Hardin, known as "Hot Miss Lil" in her early years in jazz, played with the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band before a young cornet player, Louis Armstrong, joined it. Both were married at the time, to other people. Read more about her career and the ways in which she helped her now-better-known husband become famous: Lil Hardin Armstrong.
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