including the famous night when Coleman Hawkins tried to cut the local tenor men, including Ben Webster, Lester Young and Herschel Evans. This broadcast celebrates Mothers Day featuring music by Mary ...

Mary Lou Williams seemed to learn early that playing piano would keep her alive. Maybe she realized this at age six, when she started venturing to her white neighbors' homes to play piano for them.

By 1936, then-25-year-old Mary Lou Williams' reputation already ... "Until the Real Thing Comes Along," with Williams' arrangement, had become "the biggest song of 1936" according to one Virginia ...

Smith Responds to His Perceived MAGA Love, The Famous Racist Whom Cory Booker ... The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams. "Mary Lou is a personification of genius that denigrates gender and ...

Williams’s “Night Life” is a blistering three-minute dance. It’s the kind of song that raises your heart rate because Mary Lou creates so much drama by pressurizing the syncopation between ...

Born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs in Atlanta on May 8, 1910, Mary Lou Williams was one of the most ... Jazz Festival,” Crompton says. “Between songs, she announced from the stage — I think her ...

Johnson and Mary Lou Williams into the light ... Hughes’s text indicates that the rhythm involved should evoke the song “Mamma Don’t ’Low No Piano Playin’ Here” (a folk tune that ...

The show's opening theme comes from pianist and composer/arranger Mary Lou Williams; it's called "Miss D.D." (named in honor of Williams friend, socialite, jazz lover, and future foundation ...

Mary Lou Williams seemed to learn early that playing piano would keep her alive. Maybe she realized this at age six, when she started venturing to her white neighbors' homes to play piano for them.

“Walkin’ and Swingin’,” composed originally for a jazz band by Mary Lou Williams, gives the solo pianist an original taste of Williams’s expertise in the style of jazz and blues of the 1930s. Opening ...