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A Celebration of Music By Mary Lou Williams - A Formidable Jazz Mother On Many Fronts

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This broadcast celebrates Mothers Day featuring music by Mary Lou Williams in the first hour (a formidable Jazz Mother on so many fronts). In the second hour, more music by jazz mothers Geri Allen, Allison Miller, Chris McNulty and more, with new releases from the Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band plus singles from Ann Hampton Callaway & Amanda McBroom and vocal group Säje featuring Michael Mayo. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and online. Purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke and inspire.

Playlist

  • Virginia Mayhew "J.B.'s Waltz" from Mary Lou Williams—The Next 100 Years (Renma Recordings) 00:00
  • Mary Osborne "It Must Be True" from A Girl & Her Guitar (Archive Music Revisited) 05:25
  • Eddie Landsberg (feat. Giacomo Gates) "In the Land of Oo Da Blee" from Remembering Eddie Jefferson (Berghem Records) 08:29
  • Host speaks 12:04
  • Luis Russell "Riffs (Dunking A Donut) Part 1 (feat. Louis Armstrong)" from At the Swing Cats Ball Newly Discovered Recordings From The Closet—Vol. 1---1938-1940 (Dot Time Legends) 13:44
  • Catherine Russell "Satchel Mouth Baby" from Strictly Romancin' (World Village) 16:30
  • Dizzy Gillespie & Roy Eldridge "Pretty Eyed Baby" from Roy and Diz (Verve) 19:46
  • Host speaks 25:17
  • Cecilia Smith "What's Your Story Morning Glory?" from The Mary Lou Williams Resurgence Project Small Ensemble Repertoire Vol. 1 (Innova Recordings) 26:23
  • Sarah Vaughan "Black Coffee" from The Divine Sarah Vaughan: The Columbia Years 1949-1953 (Sony BMG) 31:29
  • Nat King Cole "Walkin'" from The Classic Singles (Capital Records) 34:44
  • Host speaks 37:31
  • Deanna Witkowski "Cancer (from Zodiac Suite) Act of Contrition (from Mary Lou's Mass)" from Force of Nature (MCG Jazz) 38:28
  • Mary Lou Williams "I Have A Dream" from Mary Lou's Mass (Smithsonian Folkways) 43:50
  • Carline Ray "Lazarus" from Vocal Sides (Self Released) 45:48
  • Host speaks 51:22
  • Lou Caputo Not So Big Band "Busy Busy Busy" from Uh Oh! (Self Released) 52:12
  • Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom "Otis Was A Polar Bear" from Otis Was A Polar Bear (Royal Potato Family) 1:00:00
  • Angelique Kidjo "Esso, Esso" from Hopes & Dreams—The Lullaby Project (Decca Gold) 1:07:21
  • Ann Hampton Calloway & Amanda McBroom "Almost" from Single (Almost) (Self Released) 1:10:31
  • Host speaks 1:16:17
  • David Murray, Geri Allen, Terri Lyne Carrington "The Nurturer" from Perfection (Motema) 1:17:41
  • Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band (feat. Antoinette Montague) "Let the Good Times Roll" from Vox Humana (Jazzheads) 1:22:13
  • Host speaks 1:25:57
  • Artemis "Whirlwind" from In Real Time (Blue Note) 1:26:54
  • Säje (featuring Michael Mayo) "You Are the Oracle" from Single (Self Released) 1:33:50
  • Host speaks 1:40:26
  • Musique Noire "Motherless Child" from Intergenerational (Self Released) 1:41:45
  • Chris McNulty "You Are There" from Eternal (Palmetto) 1:47:43
  • Tierney Sutton "Little Green" from After Blue (BFM Jazz) 1:50:50
  • Host speaks 1:55:38
  • Vivien Garry Quintet "A Woman's Place Is In the Groove" from A Woman's Place Is In the Groove (PNR) 1:56:39

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