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Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, ... Williams joined her husband in Oklahoma City but did not play with the band. The group, Andy Kirk's Twelve Clouds of Joy, moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where William ...
Following her divorce from John Williams in 1942, Williams married trumpeter Harold “Shorty” Baker and the two formed their own band. Williams also led an all-women group that included noted jazz guitarist Mary Osborne and worked as a staff arranger for Duke Ellington.
In 1927, when her husband, saxophonist and bandleader John Williams, moved to Oklahoma to join the popular Andy Kirk and the Twelve Clouds of Joy, Mary Lou Williams took over the leadership of his band. She began a successful arranging career in 1929, when she moved to Oklahoma to join her husband with Kirk. During her time with Kirk ...
Williams and her husband moved to Oklahoma City, where in 1929 John joined Andy Kirk’s band, Twelve Clouds of Joy. Mary Lou Williams worked for a year as a solo pianist and a music arranger until she joined the band in 1930. By that point she took the name “Mary Lou” and was recording jazz albums.
Mary Lou Williams (geboren als Mary Alfrieda Scruggs; * 8. Mai 1910 in Atlanta, Georgia; † 28. Mai 1981 in Durham, North Carolina) war eine US-amerikanische Jazzmusikerin ( Pianistin, Komponistin und Arrangeurin ). Sie gilt als eine der wichtigsten Wegbereiterinnen der geschlechtlichen Gleichberechtigung im Jazz [1] und war „die einzige ...
Williams' arranging career began in 1929 when her husband, John Williams, joined Kirk's band. A missing pianist left a spot open for Mary Lou during an early session, and she seized the...
In 1942, Mary Lou divorced her husband and returned to Pittsburgh, forming a six-piece band of her own with Art Blakey on drums and "Shorty" Baker on trumpet. After playing in Cleveland,...
