Lil Hardin Armstrong And Her Orchestra – Chicago - The Living Legends (1962)

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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