Take-Off by Tonya Bolden

Author:Tonya Bolden [Bolden, Tonya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-49163-3
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2005-04-06T04:00:00+00:00

Lil Hardin Armstrong. After she and Louie split up, Lil kept her swing—on the bandstand, fronting Lil Armstrong's All-Girl Orchestra; on shellac, recording for Decca; and later as a solo nightclub act.

“Girls’ Band Flees Dixie After Tiff with School” read the headline of an article in the D.C.-based Afro-American. “The girls who had been traveling for three years under the sponsorship of the Piney Woods School of Mississippi, playing dance dates and sending the funds back for the support of the school, severed their ties.”

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