Mary Lou Williams
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Soul On Soul
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Author : Tammy Lynn Kernodle
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2004
Soul On Soul written by Tammy Lynn Kernodle and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A chronicle of the stormy personal and professional life of the legendary but underappreciated jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
Mary Lou Williams
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Author : Deanna Witkowski
language : en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date : 2021-08-15
Mary Lou Williams written by Deanna Witkowski and has been published by Liturgical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In Mary Lou Williams: Music for the Soul, Deanna Witkowski brings a fresh perspective to the life and music of the legendary jazz pianist-composer Mary Lou Williams (1910-81). As a fellow jazz pianist-composer, adult convert to Catholicism, and liturgical composer, Witkowski offers unique insight gleaned from a twenty-year journey with Williams as her chosen musical and spiritual mentor. Viewing Williams’s musical and corporal acts of mercy as part of a singular effort to create community no matter the context, Witkowski examines how Williams created networks of support and friendship through her decades long letter correspondence with various women religious, her charitable work, and her tireless efforts to perform jazz in churches, community centers, concert halls, and schools. Throughout this fascinating story told with equal amounts of deep love and scholarly research, Witkowski illumines Williams’s passionate mantra that “jazz is healing to the soul.”
Morning Glory
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Author : Linda Dahl
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 2012-09-19
Morning Glory written by Linda Dahl and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Mary Lou Williams -- pianist, arranger, composer, and probably the most influential woman in the history of jazz -- receives the attention she has long deserved in the definitive biography by a leading scholar of women in jazz. The illegitimate child of an impoverished and indifferent mother, Williams began performing publicly at the age of seven when she became known admiringly in her native Pittsburgh as "the little piano girl of East Liberty," playing one day for the Mellons at bridge teas and the next in gambling dens where the hat was passed for change. She grew up with the jazz of the early part of the century, championed by the likes of Earl Hines and Fats Waller, yet unlike so many other musicians of her time, she was open to new forms in jazz -- she was an early champion of bop, and a mentor and colleague to its central figures, such as Thelonius Monk and Bud Powell -- and in broader musical styles as well (after her conversion to Catholicism, she wrote masses and other sacred music). Most of the other famous women in jazz -- Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald -- have been singers. Williams was instead a phenomenal pianist who performed solo, with small groups and big bands, in vaudeville and clubs, and on numerous records. But she is equally well known today as a composer and arranger of remarkable versatility and power, having worked with, among others, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman. Her compositions have been recorded by artisits as varied as Marian McPartland, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat "King" Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, and herself -- and, more recently, by cutting-edge players Geri Allen and Dave Douglas. But Williams was more than "just a musician"; her interests were catholic in both senses, and she struggled to combine her love of music with her love of God. She was a tireless humanitarian, and made ongoing attempts to help dozens of down-and-out musicians; in the 1950s, her apartment was, at times, virtually a rehab. Though she was often in emotional despair, she found comfort for her many disappointments and hurts not only in her music but in her spirituality. Linda Dahl, granted unprecedented access to the large Williams archive, has given us the whole of Williams's very full life, from her often harrowing days on the road to her tumultuous marriages and love affairs, from the ups and downs of her unique fifty-year career to the remarkable spirituality that came to inform both her daily life and her music. This is a striking protrait of one of our least understood and most important musicians.
Mary Lou Williams
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Author : Deanna Witkowski
language : en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date : 2021-08-09
Mary Lou Williams written by Deanna Witkowski and has been published by Liturgical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award in Pop Music 2022 Catholic Media Association honorable mention in biography 2022 Association of Catholic Publishers second place award for Biography Winner of the 2022 Jazz Journalists Association Award for Biography/Autobiography of the Year In Mary Lou Williams: Music for the Soul, Deanna Witkowski brings a fresh perspective to the life and music of the legendary jazz pianist-composer Mary Lou Williams (1910-81). As a fellow jazz pianist-composer, adult convert to Catholicism, and liturgical composer, Witkowski offers unique insight gleaned from a twenty-year journey with Williams as her chosen musical and spiritual mentor. Viewing Williams’s musical and corporal acts of mercy as part of a singular effort to create community no matter the context, Witkowski examines how Williams created networks of support and friendship through her decades long letter correspondence with various women religious, her charitable work, and her tireless efforts to perform jazz in churches, community centers, concert halls, and schools. Throughout this fascinating story told with equal amounts of deep love and scholarly research, Witkowski illumines Williams’s passionate mantra that “jazz is healing to the soul.”
Mary Lou Williams
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Author : Brian Q. Torff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990*
Mary Lou Williams written by Brian Q. Torff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990* with African American composers categories.
Soul On Soul
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Author : Tammy L. Kernodle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
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Mary Lou Williams
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African-American musician Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) was a jazz pianist and composer. The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) presents a biographical sketch of Williams as part of "Biographies: Life and Times of the Great Ones," an online supplement to "JAZZ," a documentary film by American film maker Ken Burns. PBS includes audio features with reflections about Williams. The information is courtesy of the "New Grove Dictionary of Jazz."
The Little Piano Girl
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Author : Ann Ingalls
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2010
The Little Piano Girl written by Ann Ingalls and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
An illustrated account of the childhood of jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Mary Lou Williams in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in the early twentieth century.
Keep Calm And Listen To Mary Lou Williams
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Author : Perfect Papers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-07-26
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5 Piano Solos As Played And Written By Mary Lou Williams
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Author : Mary Lou Williams
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