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    Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of...
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  • Mary Lou Williams, alternatively titled Black Christ of the Andes, is a jazz album by pianist Mary Lou Williams, which was released in 1964 by Folkways...
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  • Carew Mary Wilhelmine Williams (1878–1944), historian Mary Williams (professor) (1883–1977), Welsh academic of modern languages Mary Lou Williams (1910–1981)...
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  • studio album by American jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams, released in 1974 by Mary Records. It was arranged by Williams and features her in duo and trio settings...
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    Zodiac Suite (category Mary Lou Williams albums)
    and composer Mary Lou Williams and first performed in 1945. The suite makes use of elements of classical music alongside jazz, and Williams was influenced...
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    The Hollywood Reporter. October 31, 2014. Retrieved June 2, 2016. "Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 2...
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  • Joe Thomas Wilbur Ware Dicky Wells George Wettling Ernie Wilkins Mary Lou Williams Lester Young Count Basie, having grown tired of standing, sat down...
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  • examples. An eminent example of composers of the jazz mass was Mary Lou Williams. Williams converted to Catholicism in 1957, and proceeded to compose three...
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    Johnson, Willie "the Lion" Smith, Fats Waller, Luckey Roberts, and Mary Lou Williams. Stride employed left hand techniques from ragtime, wider use of the...
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  • Free Spirits (album) (category Mary Lou Williams albums)
    Free Spirits is an album by pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams recorded in 1975 and released on the SteepleChase label in 1976. Allmusic said it "Includes...
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  • Celebrating Mary Lou Williams–Live at Birdland New York is a live album by Trio 3, a jazz group consisting of saxophonist Oliver Lake, bassist Reggie...
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    2023). "TWO NEW VERSIONS OF MARY LOU WILLIAMS' "ZODIAC SUITE"". Jazz History Online. Retrieved October 9, 2024. "Mary Lou Williams and the music of salvation"...
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  • Mary Lou Turner (born 1947), American country music singer Mary Lou Williams (1910–1981), American jazz pianist, arranger and composer Mary Lou Finlay...
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  • Billie Holiday, Sonny Stitt, Dexter Gordon, Bing Crosby, Kenny Dorham, Mary Lou Williams, Stan Kenton, Sarah Vaughan, Chet Baker, Sheila Jordan, Johnny Mathis...
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  • issues by Cozy Cole, Edmond Hall, Sabby Lewis, Slam Stewart, Mary Lou Williams, Rubberlegs Williams, Ethel Waters, and classical artists Georges Enesco, Béla...
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    "psychiatric reject" and not inducted into the Armed Forces during WWII. Mary Lou Williams, who mentored Monk and his contemporaries, spoke of Monk's rich inventiveness...
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  • to: "In the Groove" (composition), a classic jazz composition by Mary Lou Williams In the Groove (Marvin Gaye album), 1968 In the Groove (Planet Drum...
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    musicians such as Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, and Mary Lou Williams, among others. In 1938, Turner sought out Billy Mayerl at his School...
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    made their first recording for Brunswick Records that same year. Mary Lou Williams came in as pianist at the last moment, but she impressed Brunswick's...
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    Mary Lou Retton (born January 24, 1968) is an American retired gymnast. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she won a gold medal in the individual...
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    October 1968, Williams moved to New York City and continued to work steadily, playing shows with Art Blakey, Herbie Mann, and Mary Lou Williams, while recording...
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    Works: Mary Lou Williams Pens Song About Pittsburgh". The Pittsburgh Courier. October 22, 1966. p. 13. Retrieved March 8, 2024. "Mary Lou Williams and Group...
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  • Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture Records, 1983–1998". Retrieved 7 November 2012. Duke University, Student Affairs. "History of the Mary Lou...
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    early in 1944 as response to a collaborative project between Monk, Mary Lou Williams, and Bud Powell. It was first recorded on July 23, 1951, for the Genius...
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    Pepper Adams, Arturo Sandoval, Oscar Pettiford, Allen Ginsberg, Mary Lou Williams, Kenny Dorham, Ray Barretto, Wynton Marsalis, and others. He has also...
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    Bob 2014 Foreclosure Virgil Elsa & Fred Armande Selma Hosea Williams 2015 Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band Andy Kirk (voice) Documentary...
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    preseason and play-off games. For the Kennedy Center's 15th Annual Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival, in 2010, Kelly performed as part of an all-star...
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  • contributed to gospel and sacred jazz along with pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams, known for her Jazz Masses in the 1950s, and Duke Ellington. Ellington...
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    advice. This was the case with renowned Pittsburgh-reared jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams, whose distinct left-hand-dominated playing style could be traced...
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    traveling through Oklahoma City, including Teddy Wilson, Art Tatum, and Mary Lou Williams, the pianist for Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy. In 1939, Christian...
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