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Vor 4 Tagen · From the mid-1920s until 1954, professionally at least, Mary Lou Williams’ life appeared a success. She composed, arranged, recorded and played with, and was admired by many of the jazz greats of the day — Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum. But Williams’ private life told a different story. Her marriage ended in ...
Vor 6 Tagen · Mary Lou Williams (born May 8, 1910, Atlanta, Ga., U.S.—died May 28, 1981, Durham, N.C.) was a jazz pianist who performed with and composed for many of the great jazz artists of the 1940s and ’50s. Williams received early instruction from her mother, a classically trained pianist. Picking out simple tunes at age two, Mary Lou was a prodigy ...
22. Mai 2024 · By Bob Weinberg Cecilia Smith hammers home the historical import of a jazz matriarch. Cecilia Smith wasn’t deeply familiar with Mary Lou Williams when she was approached to perform a concert of the jazz matriarch’s music in 2000. A friend, who was a member of Our Lady of Victory Church in Brooklyn, proffered the invitation
Vor 5 Tagen · Dear friends of the fine and melodious, gather 'round as we spotlight a true gem of jazz history! The record in question is none other than Decca 1155, grace...
14. Mai 2024 · Pisces (Zodiac Suite, 1945) Vincent S. 1.15K subscribers. Subscribed. 7. 58 views 1 day ago. At last, the last piece of Mary Lou Williams' Zodiac Suite ! It begins with a chromatic theme in...
22. Mai 2024 · by Matt Micucci. Aaron Diehl pays tribute to Mary Lou Williams in his interpretation of one of her landmark yet overlooked works, Zodiac Suite, in a stellar collaboration with The Knights and special guests. Aaron Diehl, one of the foremost jazz pianists of his generation, pays a heartfelt homage to the iconic Mary Lou Williams through the ...
5. Mai 2024 · Here we pick 20 of best arrangers in popular music over the past century. The list could have run to triple figures, and some wonderful arrangers just miss out, including Herb Alpert, Booker T ...
