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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 playing at parties.
Black Hawk College Chamber Singers and Jazz Ensemble perform "I Have A Dream" by Mary Lou Williams.TextI have a dream yes, A dream. Listen, Oh Lord. While I ...
Subscribed. 0. 20 views 1 hour ago. Mary Lou Williams, pianist, composer, arranger born in Atlanta in 1910 and grew up in Pittsburgh, showed considerable musical talent since very young and...
Mary Lou Williams ran into similar skepticism while doing even more than Lil to make jazzwoman a Webster-worthy concept. Known in Pittsburgh as the Little Piano Girl, as a three-year-old she played spirituals and ragtime on a pump organ while propped on her mother’s lap.
58 views 1 day ago. At last, the last piece of Mary Lou Williams' Zodiac Suite ! It begins with a chromatic theme in thirds with a Bb pedal at the right hand, that alternates with a kind of...
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.
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.
