MUSIC 0711 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lil Hardin Armstrong, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jane Ira Bloom
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Women in jazz: in december featured a woman on the conver, usually feature men. St. louis blues, film feature bessie smith (1894-1937) Bessie, film written and directed by dee rees (2015) Backwater blues, bessie smith: improvisation because she didn"t know the song. Started playing the family organ at 6 years old. Got a job in chicago in a music store became familiar with lots of music. Jelly roll morton came in and played the piano: had a great influence on her, tried to play just as hard as jelly roll played (heavy playing) King joe oliver asked her to join his band: met freddie keppard in the band. Travelled with band for 6 months: then louis armstrong joined the band. Wasn"t much of a fan of him at first. Playing at royal garden in chicago: white musicians would come and listen, was in her own world. Lil hardin armstrong and her swing orchestra (1936-1940)
