Miles recorded as leader of a trio with Oliver, and in a duo with Jelly Roll Morton.

There is uncertainty in that some sources suggest that several of the Miss Frankie recordings were the work of Lizzie Miles.

[4] This particularly applies to the tracks "When You Get Tired of Your New Sweetie",[5] and "Shooting Star Blues", issued on Conqueror Records (January 1928).

She began working closely with the Sisters of the Holy Family, an order of Black religious in the city, declaring that she had decided "to live the life of a nun".

[8] She died of a heart attack, in March 1963, at the sisters' Lafon Nursing Home in New Orleans[9] and was buried in the city at Saint Louis Cemetery No.

[10] Woody Allen included her version of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" on the soundtrack of his 2013 film Blue Jasmine.

Miles died of Spanish flu in Shreveport, Louisiana on October 19, 1918 while on tour[15] and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana.