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Rediscovered Music of Mary Lou Williams

By Mary Lou Williams

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2006

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Mary Lou Williams: Mary Lou's Mass, My Mama Pinned a Rose on Me, Zodiac Suite Revisited, The Lady Who Swings the Band

by George Kanzler
May 29, 2006

Mary Lou Williams Mary Lou's Mass Smithsonian Folkways 2006 Mary Lou Williams My Mama Pinned a Rose on Me OJC 2005 Mary Lou Williams Collective Zodiac Suite Revisited ...

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The Mary Lou Williams Collective: Zodiac Suite: Revisited

Read "Zodiac Suite: Revisited" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
May 26, 2006

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 ...

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Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band

by Bob Jacobson
May 4, 2006

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 ...

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Memories of Mary Lou

by Peter O'Brien
May 4, 2006

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 ...

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Mary Lou's Salon

by AAJ Staff
May 4, 2006

"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 ...

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Mary Lou Williams: Jazz Healing

by Teri Harllee King
May 4, 2006

"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 ...

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Mary Lou Williams Presents Black Christ of the Andes

By Mary Lou Williams

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)

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Zodiac Suite: Revisited

By Mary Lou Williams

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.

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