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Zodiac Suite by Mary Lou Williams Collective, Mary Lou Williams released in 1945. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllM... 0.00 / 0.00 ...
Mary Lou Williams. JAZZ · 1945. Preview. While suffering from a bad case of writer’s block in early 1945, Mary Lou Williams turned to a book about astrology for inspiration. She quickly realized that the personalities traits denoted by each sign of the Zodiac could be a jumping-off point to draw a series of character sketches in music.
zodiac suite (1945) Background: In 1945, Mary Lou Williams was playing at a club called Café Society, owned by Barney Josephson. She also had a weekly radio program. Josephson suggested that she write something ambitious for the radio show, and she wound up conceiving a suite based on the signs of the zodiac. The individual pieces were to ...
Zodiac Suite was the first orchestral program Mary Lou Williams composed in her own name, originally produced in 1945, but never performed by a full orchestra in her lifetime; her largest arrangement was also limited to a much smaller 45-instrument grouping. This production, arranged by Jeffrey Sultanof and Rob DuBoff and championed by MSO ...
This multi-movement work takes about 30 minutes for performance. The movements correspond to the 12 zodiac signs: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces. Background (from the forward by Jeffrey Sultanof): In 1945, Mary Lou Williams was playing at a club called Café Society, owned ...
Mary Elfrieda Scruggs ou Winn, dite Mary Lou Williams, est une pianiste, arrangeuse et compositrice américaine de jazz, née le 8 mai 1910 à Atlanta et morte le 28 mai 1981 à Durham. Devenue professionnelle vers ses 10 ans, elle joue avec Andy Kirk ou Duke Ellington , et écrit pour Benny Goodman , Count Basie ou Louis Armstrong , tout en menant une carrière en solo.
7. Dez. 2006 · Product Description. Smithsonian Folkways proudly celebrated the 50th anniversary of the original Asch Records release of Mary Lou Williams' work, Zodiac Suite. Performing solo and accompanied by bassist Al Lucas and drummer Jack Parker, Williams crafted these pieces as a series of dedications to fellow musicians born under each astrological sign.
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