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