In 1954 in Paris, the pianist Mary Lou Williams walked off the jazz bandstand at age 44, suddenly and at the very height of her fame. She had finally succumbed to her midlife panic and bouts of ...
When Joan Stiles was a teenager, she heard the groundbreaking jazz pianist, composer and arranger Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) in a duo performance at the Cookery in Manhattan’s West Village. The ...
Mary Lou Williams performing at Cafe Society in New York City in June 1947. Williams thrived in New York’s jazz scene. William Gottlieb A piano was rolled into Mary Lou Williams’ hospital room in ...
Pianist Brian Ganz, a St. Mary’s College of Maryland artist-in-residence, is in the midst of a decade-long project — he plans to perform every note that Polish composer Frederic Chopin ever wrote for ...