ARMSTRONG, LILLIAN (LIL
) HARDIN. Jazz pianist ( in Memphis, Tennessee; in Chicago, Illinois). She studied piano as a child. She obtained her musical education at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee; at the Chicago [Illinois] College of Music (teacher's certificate, 1928), where she studied with Louis Victor Saar; and at the New York College of Music (diploma, 1929), where she studied with August Fraemche. Her family moved to Chicago in 1917, and she did not return...