Editing Emmett Hardy (section)

==Early life==
Hardy was born in the New Orleans suburb of [[Gretna, Louisiana]], United States, and lived much of his life in the [[Algiers, Louisiana|Algiers]] neighborhood, on the west bank of [[New Orleans]].  Hardy was a child prodigy, described as already playing marvelously in his early teens.<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> Some New Orleans musicians remembered as a musical highlight of their lives, a 1919 cutting contest where, after long and intense struggle, Hardy succeeded in outplaying [[Louis Armstrong]]. (It is likely that Armstrong, although two years older than Hardy, had not yet hit his full stride at that time.)