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Mary Elfrieda Scruggs, conocida en el mundo del jazz como Mary Lou Williams ( Atlanta, Georgia, 8 de mayo de 1910 - Durham, Carolina del Norte, 28 de mayo de 1981) fue una pianista, arreglista y compositora estadounidense que desarrolló su trabajo con músicos de swing, bebop e, incluso, free jazz .
Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981 [1]) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions). [2]
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.
Jazz helped Mary Lou Williams stay alive — but after several draining decades as a musician, she quit the scene. When she returned, she claimed her true power as one of jazz's fiercest...
"The greatest woman jazz pianist in the world." "Highly acclaimed as a deluxe tickler of the ivories." "One of the foremost swing pianists of either sex." By 1936, then-25-year-old Mary Lou...
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams - The New York Times. We asked a dozen musicians, scholars and critics to help take us on a tour of the music and mind of a pianist whose...
Mary Lou Williams lived and played through all the eras in the history of jazz: the spirituals, ragtime, the blues, Kansas City swing, boogie-woogie, bop or modern, and musics beyond—playing the new music of each era, a claim that is difficult to dispute.
