Transcript: Review: Reissue of "Mary Lou's Mass" by Mary Lou Williams

Article: 'MASS' PRODUCTION ROBINSON DANCERS COMMUNE WITH THE SPIRIT OF ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  May 12, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... longtime friend and associate of jazz great Mary Lou Williams, Robinson decided to return Mass to the stage ... Of note: The company dances a revival of Mary Lou's Mass. INFOBOX 2 Mary Lou Williams (1910-81) * Born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs ...

Article: Mary Lou Williams
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Mary Lou Williams Pianist, composer, and arranger Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) is often referred to as the First Lady of Jazz in the annals of American music history. Williams was a highly respected musician in her day whose repertoire spanned ...

Article: Mary Lou Williams of Des ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  March 2, 2007 ;     326 words ...Mary Lou Williams of Des Plaines Visitation for Mary Lou Williams (nee Vogel), 71, will be from 2 to 7 p.m. Sunday, March 4, at the Oehler Funeral Home Des Plaines Chapel, 2099 Miner St. (Northwest Highway/ Route 14 at Rand Road ...

Article: Jazz Dimension: Jazz women hold fest honoring jazz pianist ...
Chicago Defender;  May 10, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... hold fest honoring jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams Women in jazz are performing in Kennedy Center's Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival May 10-12 ... s most progressive artist, Mary Lou Williams. Each year, the Kennedy Center ...

Article: The Jazz Player's Choir of Angels; At the National Cathedral, ...
The Washington Post;  March 26, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... as its composer, jazz giant Mary Lou Williams, envisioned it -- with a full ... 20 years. "I thought I knew Mary Lou Williams's music pretty well," says ... last decades and now heads the Mary Lou Williams Foundation, which preserves ...

Article: DISCS: JAZZ HHHHH Mary Lou Williams ...
The Independent on Sunday;  July 10, 2005 ;     302 words ...The greatest female composer and pianist in the history of jazz was a Roman Catholic convert whose spiritual interests paralleled her work for black self-help groups and the Civil Rights and anti- Vietnam war struggles. This collection of recordings from 1969-72 brings together the sacred mass

Transcript: Profile: Jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams
NPR Special;  March 8, 2005 ;     426 words ... ... 2005 Profile: Jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams Host: ED GORDON Time: 9 ... tribute to the jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams, popularly known as the first ... Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines. Mary Lou Williams lived through all the eras of ...