Morning Glory - A Biography of Mary Lou Williams

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-520-22872-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 471 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 835 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dahl, Linda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Linda Dahl writes frequently about jazz. Her groundbreaking book Stormy Weather: The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen was published in 1984.