[Dixielandjazz] Fw: Your request re: Lil Armstong

[Don Ingle]

I believe it was 1970, but then my memory files ain't always that precise
any more.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: <JimDBB@aol.com>
To: <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Fw: Your request re: Lil Armstong


> In a message dated 9/26/02 3:48:01 PM Central Daylight Time,
> dingle@baldwin-net.com writes:
>
>
> > >    At that concert, after finishing a number, she remarked to her bass
man
> > > that she wasn't feeling good...then collapsed at the piano. Taken
> > offstage,
> > > an MET  worker tried to revive her, but it was not to be. One jazz
> > legend
> > > had left us while honoring another.
> > >    I never got to write that profile. But if I had my lead would have
> > > started this way:
> > >    "The first thing you note about Lillian Hardin Armstrong is her
smile.
> > It
> > > warms you through to the bone."
> > >     That is the way I remember my friend Lillian.>
>
>    Thanks, Don, for this wonderful memoir of Lil Hardin Armstrong.  What
year
> was that?
>
>    It's not too late to write your profile on Lil.  She was a pivotal
figure
> in early jazz.
>
>    Jim Beebe
>