Mary Lou Williams

United States
May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981

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Mary Lou Williams was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions). Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie.

For the last 14 days:

90 tracks
62 stations
23 countries

Mary Lou Williams top songs

1	Mary Lou
2	It Ain't Necessarily So
3	Mary Lou Blues
4	Praise the Lord
5	Zonky
6	I'm in the Mood for Love
7	The Pearls
8	Night Life
9	Ode to Saint Cecilie
10	Little Joe From Chicago
11	Tea for Two
12	How High the Moon
13	Roll 'em
14	Perdido
15	Willow Weep for Me
16	Caravan
17	A Grand Night for Swinging
18	Lullaby of the Leaves
19	What's Your Story Morning Glory
20	Yesterdays
21	Speech / a Fungus a Mungus / Medi I
22	The Pussy's in the Well
23	It Ain't Necessarily So
24	The Rocks
25	Libra

Mary Lou Williams quotes

Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.