Red Onion Jazz Babies

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. Artist Instrument Louis Armstrong Cornet Lil Hardin-Armstrong Piano Buster Bailey Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone Sidney Bechet Clarinet