Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams by Linda Dahl
Mary Lou Williams--pianist, arranger, composer, and probably the most influential woman in the history of jazz--receives the attention she has long deserved in this definitive biography.
Morning Glory
Summary
Mary Lou Williams--pianist, arranger, composer, and probably the most influential woman in the history of jazz--receives the attention she has long deserved in this definitive biography.
Morning Glory Summary
About Linda Dahl
Linda Dahl writes frequently about jazz. Her groundbreaking book Stormy Weather: The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen was published in 1984.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
1 My Mama Pinned a Rose on Me
2 The Little Piano Girl of East Liberty
3 Hits 'n Bits
4 Nite Life
5 Walkin' and Swingin'
6 Silk Stockings
7 Why Go On Pretending?
8 Trumpets No End
9 Cafe Society Blues
10 The Zodiac Suite
11 Kool
12 Benny's Bop
13 Walkin' Out the Door
14 Chez Mary Lou
15 Praying Through My Fingertips
16 Black Christ of the Andes
17 Zoning
18 Artist-in-Residence
19 The Mary Lou Williams Foundation
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
SOURCES AND NOTES
A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
A SELECTIVE MARY LOU WILLIAMS
DISCOGRAPHY: 1927 TO PRESENT
COMPOSITIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS
BY MARY LOU WILLIAMS
INDEX
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
1 My Mama Pinned a Rose on Me
2 The Little Piano Girl of East Liberty
3 Hits 'n Bits
4 Nite Life
5 Walkin' and Swingin'
6 Silk Stockings
7 Why Go On Pretending?
8 Trumpets No End
9 Cafe Society Blues
10 The Zodiac Suite
11 Kool
12 Benny's Bop
13 Walkin' Out the Door
14 Chez Mary Lou
15 Praying Through My Fingertips
16 Black Christ of the Andes
17 Zoning
18 Artist-in-Residence
19 The Mary Lou Williams Foundation
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
SOURCES AND NOTES
A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
A SELECTIVE MARY LOU WILLIAMS
DISCOGRAPHY: 1927 TO PRESENT
COMPOSITIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS
BY MARY LOU WILLIAMS
INDEX
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
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Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams by Linda Dahl
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