Effective period / Period of releases: 1925 - 1973

Members: Louis Armstrong, Buster Bailey, Buddy Christian, Charlie Irvis, Lil Hardin-Armstrong, Aaron Thompson

The Red Onion Jazz Babies sessions (created by the Gennett label) were organized by Clarence Williams and featured Lil Hardin-Armstrong, who had come east to be near her husband Louis who had just joined Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra the month before. The sessions are also famous for bringing Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong together for the first time on record.
The group never toured officially and recorded together only four times. They recorded in New York from 1924-1925.