Looking back at the life of Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) • - Blackpast
Mary Lou Williams was an African American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded over one ...
Mary Lou Williams, pioneer of sacred jazz - Angelus News
Williams returned to New York, where she continued to search. She began living a life of intense self-sacrifice and meditation. She gave ...
The Life and Work of Mary Lou Williams - YouTube
From the archives of the Education Division of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, an artist development session from the ...
Some thoughts on Mary Lou Williams - Deanna Witkowski
Mary Lou Williams cared for the poor and, like Day, chose voluntary poverty in order to rehabilitate the sick in her community, especially jazz musicians.
'Drag 'Em': How Movement Shaped The Music Of Mary Lou Williams
The genius jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams once said, "I get my inspiration from modern things." According to the writer Farah ...
Mary Lou Williams... a Jazz Artist You Should Know
In his autobiography, Music Is My Mistress, Duke Ellington wrote, "Mary Lou Williams is perpetually contemporary. Her writing and performing ...
Mary Lou Williams: "Swinger with a Mission", by Catherine O'Neill ...
MARY LOU WILLIAMS is a lady with a mission -- to bring jazz back to the young. In recent years, that quest has brought the 69-year-old pianist and composer ...
A Hidden Hero of Jazz | The New Yorker
Richard Brody writes about the documentary “Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band,” about the life and work of a hidden hero of ...
Mary Lou's Sacred Jazz | Urban Faith
Mary Lou Williams inspired Duke Ellington and a generation of future jazz legends. But it's her sacred jazz, and journey of faith, that captivated my spirit.
Mary Lou Williams - Storyville Records
Mary Lou Williams (May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Williams wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements.
Little Known Black History Fact: Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams was a jazz pianist who performed with and arranged songs for several jazz legends in her time.
Mary Lou Williams Historical Marker - Clio
Mary Lou Williams (1910 - 1981) was a lifelong musician. Williams' compositions and arrangements, which incorporated many musical styles, are considered by ...
Mary Lou Williams Took Kansas City Music To The Stars, And A ...
Mary Lou Williams Took Kansas City Music To The Stars, And A Jazz Band Brings Her Back ... Mary Lou Williams only spent a dozen years in Kansas ...
Mary Lou Williams & Cecil Taylor: Embraceable You? - JazzTimes
Within six months of her concert with Taylor, Mary was back at Carnegie Hall for another concert with another difficult musician, as a “special ...
PAFF 2015 Review: Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swing With ...
Having lived a hard knock life with an alcoholic mother and absentee father, Mary Lou left home at 14 years old and found herself married to husband and fellow ...
Mary Lou Williams: Into the Zone of Music - All About Jazz
Mary Lou Williams was born in Atlanta, Georgia on May 8, 1910, as Mary Elfrieda Scruggs. She grew up with an absent mother who drank, and the ...
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band | ITVS
During an era when Jazz was the nation's popular music, Mary Lou Williams was one of its greatest innovators. As both a pianist and composer, she was a font of ...
The Business of Jazz: Mary Lou Williams, her Life and Her Music
From the archives of the Education Division of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, an artist development session from the ...
A Lovely Illustrated Children's Book Celebrating Trailblazing Jazz ...
In The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend (public library), writers Ann Ingalls and Maryann Macdonald tell ...
A Fabulous Weekend of Music Celebrating Mary Lou Williams
This concert has an amazing story behind it. For years, Duke music professor Anthony Kelley had heard that Mary Lou Williams had been working on ...