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The Mary Lou Williams Collective: Zodiac Suite: Revisited
by Michael P. Gladstone
The Zodiac Suite was composed by pianist Mary Lou Williams in 1944-45 and recorded shortly thereafter. It was also performed on Williams' weekly radio program in 1944. The suite consists of twelve segments, each musically describing one sign of the Zodiac, and is regarded as Mary Lou Williams' most important work. Each of the compositions was ...
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
by Bob Jacobson
Imagine a pianist playing concerts with Benny Goodman and Cecil Taylor in successive years (1977-78). That pianist was Mary Lou Williams. In a career which spanned over fifty years Mary was always on the cutting edge. She was born Mary Scruggs in 1910 Atlanta. Her mother was a single parent who worked as a ...
Memories of Mary Lou
by Peter O'Brien
I met Mary Lou Williams in the pages of Time Magazine. It was early 1964. She was 53 years old and I was 23. The article, under MUSIC, was in two parts--each about a different woman. The first concerned itself with Sarah Caldwell. Ms. Caldwell directed and produced operas and was the inventor of The Boston ...
Mary Lou's Salon
by AAJ Staff
"The all-time greatest woman jazz musician." That typically was the kind of language used in describing Mary Lou Williams. Mary Lou was a fabulous pianist, as well as a noted arranger, and composer. But she also had another role of distinction: she was a sort of mother spirit for innovative musicians. Her spacious ...
Mary Lou Williams: Jazz Healing
by Teri Harllee King
"Jazz has healing in it, and a lot of love."--Mary Lou Williams The prospect of writing a column on Mary Lou Williams is just a little bit daunting--reflecting on her considerable body of work and enormous talent, but to write about women jazz artists and not cover her would be as close to a ...
Zodiac Suite: Revisited
Label: Mary Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Aries; Taurus; Gemini; Cancer; Leo; Virgo; Libra; Scorpio; Sagittarius; Capricorn; Aquarius; Pisces; The BeBop Waltz; Intermission; Thank You Madam.
Mary Lou Williams Presents Black Christ of the Andes
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Released: 2004
Track listing: (1)St. Martin De Porres 6:32 (M.L.Williams, A.S. Woods), (2)It Ain't Necessarily So 4:41 (G. & I. Gershwin), (3) The Devil 4:00 (MLW, Ada Moore), (4)Miss D.D. 2:28 (MLW), (5)Anima Christi 2:40 (MLW), (6)A Grand Night for Swinging 2:48 (B. Taylor, (7)My Blue Heaven 3:06 (G.Whiting, W.Donaldson), (8)Dirge Blues 3:21 (MLW), (9) A Fungus A Mungus 2:57 (MLW), (10) Koolbonga 3:21 (MLW), (11) Forty-Five Degree Angle 2:50 (D. Best), (12) Nicole 3:37 (MLW), (13) Chunka Lunka 3:07 (MLW), (14)Praise the Lord 5:55 (MLW)
Norman Granz' Jazz In Montreux Presents Mary Lou Williams '78
Label: Sony Urban Music
Released: 2004
Mary Lou Williams: Mary Lou Williams Presents Black Christ of the Andes
by Bob Jacobson
Calling this album mainstream is a bit misleading, since it includes four pieces of choral/sacred music and one avant-garde cut. In a way, it's the perfect mirror of where Mary Lou Williams was in the early 1960's, coming out of a nearly ten year absence from performance. At the beginning of that period she had devoted ...
Mary Lou Williams Collective: Zodiac Suite: Revisited
by AAJ Staff
In March, Geri Allen performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Stanley Kaplan Penthouse with Daryl Hall (bass) and Billy Hart (drums), a coincidental CD release for this very musical Mary Lou Williams' Collective release that features Allen with an alternating trio featuring Buster Williams (bass) and Hart as well as Andrew Cyrille (drums). As ...
