Red Onion Jazz Babies - Terrible Blues (1924)

Red Onion Jazz Babies sessions were organized by Clarence Williams and featured Lil Hardin-Armstrong who had come east to be near her husband Louis who had just joined the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra the month before. The sessions are also famous for bringing Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong together for the first time on record.

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• Red
• Onion
• Jazz
• Babies
• Clarence
• Williams
• Louis
• Armstrong
• 1924
• 20's

[sirjuandabicho]

Maravilloso, muchas gracias.

[fillra]

Thankyou for this, edmundusrex, I enjoy all the early jazz that you post.

The photo shows the lovely Lil with Johnny Dodds, (clarinet). And the photo is a mystery, because the one shown above is a cut-and-paste job from a posed photo of the Hot Five.

According to the michaelminn site for Armstrong's discography, Buster Bailey played clarinet on this session.

[ErnieHollerhagen]

@fillra: If this is Buster Bailey playing clarinet on this record, then I'm a reincarnation of Sidney Bechet in person. This is not Bailey.

[fillra]

You can see the original photo of The Hot Five if you Google 'Hot Five' and then click on 'Images'. Louis is at the piano. Lil is on the right of the photo. The original has Kid Ory standing between Lil and Johnny, so someone has digitally removed Kid Ory so that Lil is now next to Johnny Dodd.

Also, the image has also been reversed, ie, a mirror image, so on your photo Lil is on the left.

Where did your photo come from?

Over to you, Rex.