Mary Lou Williams: My Mama Pinned A Rose On Me

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  • Label: Pablo, 1977
  • Order number: 3944167
  • Release date: 30.8.2005
  1. 1 The blues
  2. 2 N.G. blues
  3. 3 Dirge blues
  4. 4 Baby bear boogie
  5. 5 Turtle speed blues
  6. 6 Blues for Peter
  7. 7 My mama pinned a rose on me
  8. 8 Prelude to prism
  9. 9 Prism
  10. 10 What's your story morning glory
  11. 11 Prelude to love roots
  12. 12 Love roots
  13. 13 Rhythmic pattern
  14. 14 J.B.'s waltz
  15. 15 The blues
  16. 16 No title blues
  17. 17 Syl-o-gism

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At the age of 16, in 1926, Mary Lou Williams was an accomplished jazz pianist. The evidence is on recordings she made that year. By 1930, when she became the permanent pianist in Andy Kirk’s band, she had synthesized the styles of James P. Johnson and Earl Hines into a way of playing that fit perfectly into the swirl of influences that were merging to form the Swing Era. Williams developed into one of the greatest jazz arrangers of the period. Later, she encouraged and was affected by the music that Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Bud Powell pioneered in the Forties. In My Mama Pinned a Rose on Me, she summarized the impact of the blues on her musical thinking and development. On two pieces, the singer Cynthia Tyson joins her. On others, the virtuoso bassist Buster Williams accompanies her. The previously unreleased bonus track “Syl-o-gism” is a stirring duet between the unrelated but highly sympathetic Williamses. (concordmusicgroup. com)

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