At 7, Mary Lou Williams is famous as "Little Piano Girl".
Some years later, she's "First Lady of Jazz", extraordinary pianist, composer, arranger, who works with or for Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie...
She had recorded more than 100 albums before her death, in 1981. "Black Christ Of The Andes" is one of them, and contains "Miss D.D.", a musical jewelry !
Mary Lou Williams : pianoTheodore Cromwell : bass
George Chamble : drums
Listen to Mary Lou Williams "Miss D.D."
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