“It’s truly a welcoming place for our students and anyone who chooses to visit,” the center’s director Stacia Williams said before the reception to a backdrop of live jazz. The Lou was named to honor ...

Jazz album: “Celebrating Mary Lou Williams (Live at Birdland New York)” by Reggie Workman, released in 2011 on Intakt Records. Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About ...

Diehl and the MSO are performing an arrangement by Jeffrey Sultanof and Rob DuBoff. Pianist Aaron Diehl will perform Mary Lou Williams' "Zodiac Suite" May 26-28 with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

The Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture opened in 1983 and is named after Mary Lou Williams, a jazz pianist and composer, who worked with Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie.

John MunsonJoan Stiles, shown in her Manhattan apartment, finds endless inspiration in the music of Mary Lou Williams. When Joan Stiles was a teenager, she heard the groundbreaking jazz pianist ...

Kimberly Hannon Teal, Posthumously Live: Canon Formation at Jazz at Lincoln Center through the Case of Mary Lou Williams, American Music, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Winter 2014), pp. 400-422 ...