Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams
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Artist Information
Genres: Big Band, Gospel, Black Gospel, Bop, Swing, Post-Bop, Stride, Third Stream, Mainstream Jazz, Spirituals, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz
Active: 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's
Born: May 8, 1910 in Atlanta, GA
Influences
Earl Hines, Bud Powell, Fats Waller, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker
Similar Artists
Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Phineas Newborn, Jr., Errol Carter, Dorothy Donegan, Hazel Scott, Art Hodes, Barbara Sutton-Curtis, Winifred Atwell, Clarence Profit, Walter Page's Blue Devils
Followers
Ran Blake, Hilton Ruiz, Charlie Christian, Marcus Roberts, Jessica Williams, Junior Mance, Marian McPartland, Dizzy Gillespie
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Biography
To say that Mary Lou Williams had a long and productive career is an understatement. Although for decades she was often called jazz's greatest female musician (and one has to admire what must have been a nonstop battle against sexism), she would have been considered a major artist no matter what her sex.
Discography
Release: November 11, 2008
Label: Acrobat
Release: July 14, 2008
Label: Acrobat