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Featuring Bethany PICkEns Trio and Alexis Lombre Quartet
Online concert recorded at Chicago’s Garfield Park Conservatory.
Louis Armstrong arrived in Chicago 100 years ago this year. This Women’s History Month we honor one of the great influences in his life, his wife, Lil Hardin Armstrong, an accomplished pianist who helped guide and define Louis’s career.
The Jazz Institute of Chicago is celebrating the centennial of Louis Armstrong’s arrival to Chicago with a series of performances, discussions, and showings throughout 2022. No conversation about Louis would be complete without discussing his wife, Lil Hardin Armstrong, an accomplished pianist and composer who helped shape the life and music of her husband’s internationally celebrated career. We take this opportunity to observe Women’s History Month by showcasing two of Chicago’s most important female jazz artists, each with a direct musical lineage from the incredible Lil Hardin Armstrong.
Produced in partnership with the Chicago Park District
City of Chicago, Lori E. Lightfoot, Mayor
Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners
Chicago Park District, Rosa Escareño, Interim General Superintendent and CEO