Results for "Mary Lou Williams"

Mary Lou Williams: Mary Lou Williams Presents Black Christ of the Andes

by Bob Jacobson
September 12, 2004

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
May 14, 2004

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 ...

Geri Allen Plays Mary Lou Williams

by Irene Javors
March 12, 2004

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.

Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams

by AAJ Staff
March 8, 2004

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 ...

I Made You Love Paris

By Mary Lou Williams

Label: Sony Urban Music
Released: 2000

Mary Lou Williams, 1945-1947

By Mary Lou Williams

Label: Classics
Released: 2000

Mary Lou Williams Trio at Rick's Cafe Americain

By Mary Lou Williams

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.

Dave Douglas: Moving the Music Forward

by David Adler
April 1, 2000

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, ...

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

by Bob Jacobson
February 1, 2000

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 ...

Mary Lou Williams: Mary Lou Williams, 1945-1947

by Bob Jacobson
January 1, 2000

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 ...