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29 de abr. de 2024 · Syncopated Times. April 29, 2024. Jazz Birthday. Illustration by Sara Lièvre. Mary Lou Williams was born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs on May 8, 1910, in Atlanta, Georgia. By the age of two, she could pick out simple tunes on the piano, and received lessons from her mother the following year. While still a child, she began to support her family by ...
Hace 4 días · K.V. Turley, July 3, 2021. “It seemed that night that it all came to a head. I couldn’t take it any longer. So I just left — the piano, the money, all of it.”. It was in 1954, in the middle of a performance when the African American jazz composer and performer Mary Lou Williams unexpectedly exited a Paris stage.
Hace 6 días · 77 subscribers. Subscribed. 0. No views 1 minute ago Jazz Therapy Podcast. In this episode, Jesse reflects upon the life of the multi-talented Mary Lou Williams, pianist, composer, arranger,...
14 de may. de 2024 · Aaron Diehl, one of the foremost jazz pianists of his generation, pays a heartfelt homage to the iconic Mary Lou Williams through the first complete largescale recording of one of her landmark works on his fourth full-length release on Mack Avenue Records.
24 de abr. de 2024 · The first, ever, Pittsburgh Jazz Festival, June 19 and 20, 1964. The idea of a Jazz Festival in Pittsburgh started much earlier with planning led by Mary Lou Williams and many others that went on for several years. It was a very big deal, but has not been talked about much of late. As we prepare to celebrate Mary Lou’s birthday in May, we ...
Hace 6 días · The concert will also be broadcast internationally n December 22. “Soul on Soul – The Music of Mary Lou Williams” will also feature NEC alum and 2009 winner of the Mary Lou Wiliams Jazz Pianist Competition Carmen Staaf. More here.
8 de may. de 2024 · Web Content. K nown for her adventurous, engaging music that heals the soul, pianist-composer-vocalist Deanna Witkowski moves with remarkable ease between Brazilian, jazz, classical, and sacred music. The award-winning bandleader releases her seventh recording, Force of Nature (MCG Jazz) in January 2022, a companion piece to her ...
