[Dixielandjazz] Lil Armstrong

Wed, 25 Sep 2002 01:03:12 EDT

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In a message dated 9/24/02 9:44:16 AM Central Daylight Time, 
ringwald@calweb.com writes:

> Don Ingle wrote:
> 
> > In my time in the house band at Chicago's Jazz Ltd. we played five night 
> a
> > week, six hours a night. we had Thursday and Sunday off (with an off 
> night
> > band led by Lil Armstrong or Art Hodes on Thursdays).
> 
> 
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> 
> Di you know Lil?  If so, tell us about her.
> 
> Bob
> mr.wonderful@ringwald.com

   I played with Lil a few times at Jazz LTD.  She as a wonderful vivacious 
woman. She loved to play the piano and her sheer joy in it was obvious.  I 
was surprosed to find that she could play some knock down boogie woogie. Lil 
liked to talk about Louis and once she told me that Louis was a great 
whistler and that he would whistle  good choruses and things on tunes.  She 
finally told him, ' why don't you play on your trumpet those phrases and 
things that you are whistling.'  According to her, he started thinking about 
it and actually doing it.  I believe her on that and I beleive that she was 
much more of an influence on Louis than most people realize.  I believe that 
he supported her all of her life.  She keeled over and died in the middle of 
an outdoor concert in chicago.  

JIm Beebe

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<HTML>In a message dated 9/24/02 9:44:16 AM Central Daylight Time, ringwald@calweb.com writes: 
 
 
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Don Ingle wrote: 
 
&gt; In my time in the house band at Chicago's Jazz Ltd. we played five night a 
&gt; week, six hours a night. we had Thursday and Sunday off (with an off night 
&gt; band led by Lil Armstrong or Art Hodes on Thursdays). 
 
 
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Di you know Lil?&nbsp; If so, tell us about her. 
 
Bob 
mr.wonderful@ringwald.com</BLOCKQUOTE> 
 
&nbsp;&nbsp; I played with Lil a few times at Jazz LTD.&nbsp; She as a wonderful vivacious woman. She loved to play the piano and her sheer joy in it was obvious.&nbsp; I was surprosed to find that she could play some knock down boogie woogie. Lil liked to talk about Louis and once she told me that Louis was a great whistler and that he would whistle&nbsp; good choruses and things on tunes.&nbsp; She finally told him, ' why don't you play on your trumpet those phrases and things that you are whistling.'&nbsp; According to her, he started thinking about it and actually doing it.&nbsp; I believe her on that and I beleive that she was much more of an influence on Louis than most people realize.&nbsp; I believe that he supported her all of her life.&nbsp; She keeled over and died in the middle of an outdoor concert in chicago.&nbsp; 
 
JIm Beebe</HTML>

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