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Mary Lou Williams: Clean Pickin' (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 26, 07Mary Lou Williams didn't need bass and drums to keep the dancers shaking and shimmying. With her driving, two-fisted...
Mary Lou Williams: Medi No. 2 (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music December 03, 07Composed during her religious chapter, “Medi No. 2,” also on Zoning (1974) and Mary Lou’s Mass (1977), demonstrates h...
Marian McPartland: Cloudy (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 03, 07Mary Lou Williams was a leading light through each epoch of jazz; her playing, composing, and arranging were equally ...
Marian McPartland: Threnody (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 13, 08True, she blazes bebop and swings steadier than Big Ben, but when Marian McPartland enfolds her hands around a ballad...
Dizzy Gillespie (featuring Mary Lou Williams): Selections from Zodiac Suite (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music June 08, 08Zodiac Suite was the first of many long-form compositions Mary Lou Williams produced during her lengthy and distingui...
Mary Lou Williams: The Scarlet Creeper (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 16, 08"The Scarlet Creeper" was originally released on 1971's From the Heart, Mary Lou Williams's first solo piano recordin...
Mary Lou Williams: Play It Momma (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 14, 08Mary Lou Williams was the rarity for jazz in her era and beyond. She left a legacy of great piano playing, stellar ar...
Mimi Jones: Suite Mary (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music August 25, 09A New Day is the debut CD from bassist Mimi Jones, formerly known by her real name, Miriam Sullivan. As Sullivan, sh...
Andy Kirk: Walkin' and Swingin' (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music July 02, 09"Walkin' and Swingin'" is an excellent example of the work of this great Kansas City-based band and its principal arr...
Andy Kirk: Walkin' & Swingin' (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 12, 07When orchestrating her compositions, Mary Lou Williams never felt constrained by the sectional mindset that dominate...
Jessica Williams: Toshiko (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 15, 09There's no doubt that Jessica Williams, like other women in jazz, has been inspired by those who came before her, suc...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JESSICA WILLIAMS
Superlatives abound in the many reviews and articles about the now 61-year-old pianist Jessica Williams, as well as...
Jessica Williams: Mr. Syms (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 15, 09Williams has often remarked that her piano style is more influenced by saxophonists than by other pianists, usually s...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JESSICA WILLIAMS
Superlatives abound in the many reviews and articles about the now 61-year-old pianist Jessica Williams, as well as...
Williams, Mary Lou (Mary Alfrieda Scruggs) posted in Encyclopedia July 19, 08From Kansas City in the twenties to New York in the forties and beyond, pianist, arranger and composer Mary Lou Willi...
Williams, Jessica (Jennifer) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09"Don't ever let anyone stop you," is what Jessica Williams was once told by another relentlessly talented pianist, Ma...
Sullivan, Maxine (Marietta Williams) posted in Encyclopedia July 18, 08Known for her swing versions of Scottish folk tunes, singer Maxine Sullivan's hits did not always do justice to her i...
A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...
McPartland, Marian (Margaret Marian Turner) posted in Encyclopedia December 17, 08Pianist Marian McPartland has mastered virtually every style of jazz, including bebop and free jazz, in her more tha...
Stiles, Joan (Lillian Silver). posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Stiles, Joan (Lillian Silver), pianist, arranger, teacher; b. Brooklyn, NY, 1 June 1954. Studied piano as a ...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Marian McPartland posted in Features and Interviews May 02, 08For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their 8th decade. Oct...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Carline Ray posted in Features and Interviews March 17, 09For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Octo...
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