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Article: Live Review

Geri Allen Plays Mary Lou Williams

Read "Geri Allen Plays Mary Lou Williams" reviewed by Irene Javors


In conjunction with the exhibition, “Mary Lou Williams In Her Own Right," (Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, N.Y. through December 31, 2000), the Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts presented on Octobert 6, 2000, a concert by Geri Allen with Marc Johnson on bass and Billy Johnson on drums of the music of Mary Lou Williams.

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Article: Book Review

Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams

Read "Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams Linda Dahl Berkeley: University of California Press ISBN: 0375408991 Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981): was she an important minor and perhaps neglected figure in jazz history, or was she a powerful and original stylist somehow left out of the jazz ...

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Mary Lou Williams Trio at Rick's Cafe Americain

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2000
Track listing:

Recorded in Chicago, November 14, 1979. Total playing time=67:36. * Autumn Leaves; I Can't Get Started; You Can't Take That Away from Me; Satin Doll; The Jeep is Jumping; St. James Infirmary; Surrey with the Fringe on Top; My Funny Valentine; Mack the Knife; What's Your Story Morning Glory; Without a Song; Caravan; A Grand Night for Swinging.

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I Made You Love Paris

Label: Sony Urban Music
Released: 2000

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Article: Interview

Dave Douglas: Moving the Music Forward

Read "Dave Douglas: Moving the Music Forward" reviewed by David Adler


There aren't many artists who release records two at a time, but trumpeter Dave Douglas has done it already this year with Leap of Faith, a quartet date for Arabesque, and Soul On Soul, a sextet session for RCA Victor which pays tribute to the late pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams. On top of that, ...

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Article: Album Review

Mary Lou Williams: Mary Lou Williams Trio at Rick's Cafe Americain

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This CD is one of a handful by Mary Lou Williams finally appearing in “record" bins. Here's Mary Lou at age 69 and at the height of her powers (despite, as we're told by biographer Linda Dahl, physical ailments and a recent diagnosis of cancer). Also on board were Milton Suggs, bass, and Drashear Khalid, drums ...

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Article: Album Review

Mary Lou Williams: Mary Lou Williams, 1945-1947

Read "Mary Lou Williams, 1945-1947" reviewed by Bob Jacobson


At long last the “record" bins have more than two or three CD's of Mary Lou Williams, the brilliant pianist-composer-arranger whose career spanned half the century. This album from her mid-career includes 25 cuts (total time = 66 minutes, 51 seconds), with Mary in a variety of formats: solo, trio, quartet, quintet ("Mary Lou Williams Girl ...

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Zodiac Suite

Label: Sony Urban Music
Released: 1995

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Piano Stylists 1927 - 1980

Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society
Released: 1985
Track listing: Railroad Blues; You've Got To Be Modernistic; Morning Air; Anitra's Dance; Ain't Misbehavin'; Nightlife; In A Mist; Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night; Oh Baby; Washboard Blues; Chicago Breakdown; Portrait Of Tallulah No. 2; Lenox Avenue Blues; The Staggers; My Own Blues; Times Square Blues; Margie; Between Sets; Sweet Lorraine; Cherokee; Four Bar Intro With Tag; Have You Met Miss Jones?; Solitude; Giant Steps; Mighty Lak A Rose; Mellow Mood; September In The Rain; Old Devil Moon; Paraphrase; Oh! What A Beautiful Morning; Ladybird; Get Happy; Steeplechase; Celia; Blues On Purpose; Creole Love Call; Con Alma; Smoke Gets In Your Eyes; Somebody Loves Me; Diane; Albuquerque Social Swim; These Foolish Things; Waltz For Debby; Blue Monk; Lady Sings The Blues; Berkshire Blues; New Orleans Strut; Truckin';


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