Morning Glory

A Biography of Mary Lou Williams

Linda Dahl (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

471 Seiten

2001
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-22872-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.4.2001
Zusatzinfo	43 b-w photographs
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	726 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
ISBN-10	0-520-22872-3 / 0520228723
ISBN-13	978-0-520-22872-6 / 9780520228726
Zustand	Neuware