On this album, Mary Lou Williams presents a history of jazz in speech and in music, from meditations on learning ragtime and blues as a child to performances of her own compositions, including "Night...
So versatile that she was able to sustain a professional career for more than thirty years, jazz pianist, composer and arranger Mary Lou Williams ran the gamut from Dixieland to swing, bop and...
Williams,Mary Lou Mary Lous Mass CD1. Willis 2. O.W 3. Praise the Lord 4. Old Time Spiritual 5. The Lord Says 6. Act of Contrition 7. Kyrie Eleison (Lord, Have Mercy) 8. Gloria 9. Medi I and Medi II...
Williams,Mary Lou Mary Lou Williams Plays In London CD1. Titoros 2. They Can't Take That Away from Me 3. Round About Midnight 4. Perdido 5. Kool Bongo 6. For You 7. Don't Blame Me 8. Lady Bird 9...
After rediscovering a tin box full of acetate recordings of jazz rehearsal sessions, Folkways founder Moe Asch pieced together a sequence that shows the on-the-spot creative energy musicians produce...