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Genere. Jazz. Periodo di attività musicale. anni 1920 – 1981. Strumento. pianoforte. Modifica dati su Wikidata · Manuale. Mary Lou Williams, nata Mary Elfrieda Scruggs ( Atlanta, 8 maggio 1910 – Durham, 28 maggio 1981 ), è stata una pianista, arrangiatrice e compositrice statunitense di musica jazz .
14 giu 2023 · Williams, Mary Lou - Decca 1155 (1936) by. Mary Lou Williams, piano (& drums, bass) Publication date. 1936-03-11. Topics. 78rpm Jazz, Decca, Williams Mary Lou, Piano. Mary Lou Williams (Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; 08.05.1910 - 28.05.1981): American jazz pianist, arranger and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements ...
10 set 2019 · By 1936, then-25-year-old Mary Lou Williams' reputation already preceded her. The pianist's primary gig — Kansas City band Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy — was taking off, booked for...
Mary Lou Williams, nata Mary Elfrieda Scruggs, è una pianista jazz, compositrice e arrangiatrice nata ad Atlanta, Georgia, nel maggio 1910, seconda di otto figli. Passa la sua infanzia e adolescenza a Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, città in cui si trasferisce con la madre per sfuggire alla povertà del sud rurale.
11 feb 2022 · The bouncy performance the Andy Kirk band gave on its Decca recording of “Walkin’ and Swingin'” reflects strongly what was going on in the world of swing in early 1936 when it was made. Mary Lou Williams’s very creative arrangement contains a number of musical contrasts, and it swings gently but persuasively from beginning to ...
Mary Lou was an American jazz pianist and composer. A child prodigy, she had taught herself to play piano from the age of three and was performing publicly b...
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In 1937, she produced In the Groove (Brunswick), a collaboration with Dick Wilson, and Benny Goodman asked her to write a blues song for his band. The result was "Roll 'Em", a boogie-woogie piece based on the blues, which followed her successful "Camel Hop", named for Goodman's radio show sponsor, Camel cigarettes.
