01 - Or Leave Me Alone
 02 - My Hi-De-Ho-Man
 03 - Brown Gal
 04 - Doin' The Suzie-Q
 05 - Just For A Thrill
 06 - It's Murder
 07 - Born To Swing
 08 - (I'm On A) Sit-Down Strike For Rhythm
 09 - Bluer Than Blue
 10 - I'm Knockin At The Cabin Door
 11 - Lindy Hop
 12 - When I Went Back Home
 13 - Let's Call It Love
 14 - You Mean So Much To Me
 15 - Let's Get Happy Together
 16 - Happy Today, Sad Tomorrow
 17 - You Shall Reap What You Sow
 18 - Oriental Swing
 19 - Safely Locked Up In My Heart
 20 - Everything's Wrong, Ain't Nothing Right
 21 - Harlem On Saturday Night
 22 - Knock-Kneed Sal (On The Mourner's Bench)
 23 - Sixth Street
 24 - Riffin' The Blues
 25 - Why Is A Good Man So Hard To Find
 26 - My Secret Flame

Lil Hardin is perhaps best known as the second wife of Louis Armstrong, whom she met when they both performed in King Oliver's Creole Jazzband. Lil Hardin was the band's pianist. People are fond of describing her as a mediocre pianist, but we think she deserves better. But where she really shines and deserves far more recognition than she gets is as a vocalist and band leader. That is what you can hear on this CD, which includes 26 superb tracks featuring Lil as leader of her own Swing Orchestra. She is a dynamic, high-energy vocalist somewhat resembling Blanche Calloway, Cab's big sister. She leads a swinging jazz band featuring some excellent musicians, including Chu Berry and Jonah Jones. She does particularly well with dance numbers such as Doin' the Suzy-Q and Lindy Hop, and we especially enjoy her song about the mysterious and ominous Knock-Kneed Sal on the Mourner's Bench. --- heptune.com

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A1 	Royal Garden Blues 	5:45
A2 	Red Arrow Blues 	4:27
A3 	Muskrat Ramble 	6:30
A4 	Boogie Me 	2:47
B1 	Clip Joint	4:40
B2 	Basin Street Blues 	4:54
B3 	Eastown Boogie 	6:19
B4 	Bugle Blues 	3:49

Lil Hardin Armstrong – piano, vocals (B1)
Darnell Howard – clarinet (A1 to A3, B1 to B4)
Franz Jackson – clarinet (A1 to A3, B1 to B4)
Bill Martin – trumpet (A1 to A3, B1 to B4)
Eddie Smith – trumpet (A1 to A3, B2 to B4)
Roi Nabors – trumpet (A1 to A3, B1 to B4)
Al Wynn – trombone (A1 to A3, B1 to B4)
Preston Jackson – trombone (A1 to A3, B1 to B4)
Pops Foster – bass (A1 to A3, B1 to B4)
Booker Washington - drums

Despite being active up until her death in 1971, Lil Armstrong only recorded a handful of numbers in the 1950's. This CD reissue (other than the soundtrack of a slightly later television special) has her final recording, a jam session from 1961. On three dixieland warhorses, some blues, a few basic originals and "Bugle Blues," the pianist (who sings on "Clip Joint") leads a spirited if overcrowded band comprised of three trumpets, two trombones, two clarinetists (Darnell Howard and Franz Jackson), bassist Pops Foster and drummer Booker Washington; "Boogie Me" gives her a chance to perform a duet with Washington. The ensembles of the other songs are often riotous and this rather spontaneous and undisciplined outing is generally exciting if erratic. This is fun music by a pianist who should have been documented much more extensively in her later years. ---Scott Yanow, Rovi

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