Caili O’Doherty
For your Grammy® Consideration
Best Jazz Vocal Album
Bluer Than Blue
Best Jazz Performance
Let’s Call It Love
Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals
Let’s Call It Love
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
Riffin’ The Blues
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Bluer Than Blue
Label: Outside In Music
Lillian “Lil” Hardin Armstrong is a name most jazz aficionados recognize, having read it in the annals and footnotes of jazz history, but often mistakenly gloss over it in passing as a detail in the broader narrative. For pianist Caili O’Doherty, the story of Lil Hardin Armstrong became the caper of an unsung heroine of jazz history.
Caili O’Doherty Piano, Arrangements
Tamir Shmerling Upright Bass
Cory Cox Drums
Nicole Glover Tenor Saxophone
Tahira Clayton Vocals
Michael Mayo Vocals
While most will remember that Armstrong was the second wife of jazz icon Louis Armstrong who is often credited with spurring him forward to greatness, few may know the extent of her influence. For O’Doherty, what started as a few lines in a textbook at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College quickly turned into an enigmatic journey of discovery. Through research, study, and the music itself, O’Doherty discovered that not only did Lil Hardin Armstrong’s music become the staple foundation of her husband Louis’s career, but she went on to write hits for greats throughout history such as Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin.
With Bluer Than Blue, O’Doherty goes directly to the source. Drawing on beloved and deep works from Lil Hardin Armstrong’s and instilling them with new vigor and reinterpretations of O’Doherty’s own masterful devising.
Lil Hardin Armstrong
1898–1970
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