RADIO/PODCAST: A Brief History of Mary Lou Williams

Does anybody embody the history of 20th-century jazz as much as m: Mary Lou Williams? The arc of her career extends from the territory bands and Kansas City swing of the 1930s to the heights of the big-band era, the bebop movement of the 1940s, the American expatriate jazz of the post-World War II era, the sacred-jazz trend of the 1960s, and the emergence of jazz education in the 1970s. Only m: Duke Ellington, m: Miles Davis, and m: Benny Carter can compare to her in terms of long-running musica...

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